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Renaissance Fashion: The Birth of Power Dressing

12/28/2010

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At what point did it begin to matter what you wore? Ulinka Rublack looks at why the Renaissance was a turning point in people’s attitudes to clothes and their appearance


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The codpiece: social fashion or medical need?

12/13/2010

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The male dress style of the higher classes of European society was revolutionised in the early years of the Renaissance. The codpiece was introduced into the male tunic. The codpiece had proportions that were at times grotesque, and so extreme that the question of the purpose of its use arises. Art gallery guides speculate that the codpiece represented a statement of the virility of the individual and could be looked on as a sex promotion object. This is clearly the impression gained from, for example Holbein’s portrayal of Henry VIII, arms akimbo, broad shouldered, groin thrust forward, the very epitome of a lusty male. The codpiece, however, may have been a disguise for underlying disease.

Italy was the leader in many concepts of the new fashions in the Renaissance. For men, there was a change from the narrow-waisted vertical line to the more horizontal. Among the wealthier, the trend in the very late fifteenth century appears to be towards longer hose and shorter doublets leading to a space in which the male genitals may have been exposed if not covered. In Italy, assuming that paintings of the time accurately reflect the dress of the day, artists included the display of the codpiece as a dramatic element of male costume. In Italy, the codpiece was called a sacco and in France, a braguette.

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Letters found on Mona Lisa

12/13/2010

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Italian researchers have discovered tiny letters on Leonardo da Vinci’s famous Mona Lisa portrait, which they believe will shed light on who the model was. Silvano Vinceti of Italy’s National Committee for Cultural Heritage explained in interviews that the letters can easily be seen with a magnifying glass and can be seen on her eyes.

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Short Term Causes of the Italian Wars

12/7/2010

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1494 Ludovico Sforza of Milan invites the King of France, Charles VIII, to invade Naples
  • 1495 The Holy League of Venice in formed to check French advance
    • 1498 Pope Alexander VI invites Louis XII to invade Milan
    • 1500 Treaty of Granada - Louis and Ferdinand partition Naples. Disputes lead to Battles of Cergnola and Garigliano (1503): Spanish victories
    • 1503 Julius II becomes Pope and later forms League of Cambrai against Vanice (1508)
    • 1509 Battle of Agnadello: League of Cambrai defeats Venice
    • 1511 Julius forms Second Holy League against France
    • 1512 Battle of Ravenna - France defeats forces of Holy League
    • 1513 Battle of Novara - Holy League defeats France
    • 1515 Battle of Marignano - Francis I crushes the Holy League
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    Was Leonardo a Christian?

    12/7/2010

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    The beliefs of the man who painted some of the most famous Christian images are shrouded in mystery. Alex Keller coaxes Leonardo da Vinci’s thoughts out of some little-known personal writings.

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    The Medici and Gozzoli's Magi

    12/7/2010

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    Malcolm Oxley on how the Christmas story was co-opted into politics and social aspirations in Renaissance Florence.

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    Savonarola - Preacher and Patriot?

    12/7/2010

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    Donald Weinstein examines the career and context of the extraordinary millenarian friar who held a puritanical sway over Renaissance Florence in the last decade of the fifteenth century.

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    Ferrante of Naples the Statecraft of a Renaissance Prince

    12/7/2010

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    David Abulafia reassesses the life and motives of a notorious ruler and the complex web of Renaissance diplomacy involving him which led up to the Italian wars.

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    Execution of Florentine friar Savonarola

    12/7/2010

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    Richard Cavendish remembers the events of May 23rd, 1498

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    Christian Humanism: from Renaissance to Reformation

    12/7/2010

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    Lucy Wooding introduces a highly significant, but often much misunderstood, cultural force.
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