Matthäus Schwarz

The first book of fashion

01 May 2013
Fashion conveys complex messages. The recreation of an outfit taken from one of an extraordinary series of Renaissance portraits reveals how one man...
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Renaissance

Piety in the Renaissance Home

14 Jan 2013
The notion of the Renaissance as a ‘secular age’ is to be challenged by three University of Cambridge researchers after securing €2.3m funding from...
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16th century votive offerings

Objects of devotion

02 Feb 2012
Why did Renaissance shoppers fill their baskets with rosaries, crucifixes, Christ-dolls and devotional paintings? A new study by historian Dr Mary...
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