[MR] Fwd: Exhibit @ Morgan Library (NYC) - Illuminating Fashion - May 20th - Sept 4th 2011

[David Chessler]

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   3. Upcoming Exhibit @ Morgan Library - Illuminating Fashion -
      May 20th - Sept 4th 2011 (aajurga at aol.com)
   5. Fwd: [Ealdormere] Best preserved Magna Carta is 795 years old
      (Liz Clark)


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Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 20:01:06 -0400 (EDT)
From: aajurga at aol.com


Greetings,

Opening this May, The Morgan Library in NYC will be having an 
exhibition on fashion in illuminated manuscripts:

"Illuminating Fashion: Dress in the Art of Medieval France and the 
Netherlands"

This exhibition will explore the evolution of fashionable clothing in 
Northern Europe?from the fashion revolution of the early fourteenth 
century to the dawn of the Renaissance. Drawn from the Morgan's 
collections, over fifty illuminated medieval and Renaissance 
manuscripts and early printed books are featured.

The nearly 200 years just prior to the Renaissance in Northern Europe 
constituted a fertile era for fashion, a period in which clothing 
styles changed rapidly, often from one decade to the next. The 
exhibition examines the role of social customs, cultural influences, 
and politics?such as the Hundred Years' War, the occupation of Paris by 
the English, and the arrival of the Italian Renaissance?in shaping 
fashion.

The exhibition also demonstrates the richness of symbolism in medieval 
art and how artists used clothing and costume as codes to help viewers 
interpret an image. In these works of art, what people wear is a clue 
to their identities and moral characters.

To dramatize these fashions, four recreated ensembles replicating 
clothing depicted in the exhibition will be on view. The garments wre 
made using period hand-sewing techniques and authentic 
materials?including silk velvet, gold brocade, linen, straw, and ermine.

For information, please see the Morgan Library's website:


http://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/exhibition.asp?id=45

All the best,
Lady Godiva
(Agatha Jurga)


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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 12:56:59 -0400
From: Liz Clark <freya46 at gmail.com>
Subject: [EK] Fwd: [Ealdormere] Best preserved Magna Carta is 795
	years old


Stolen from Ealdormere.. yet again. :-)

Freya



http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/wiltshire/hi/people_and_places/arts_and_culture/newsid_9184000/9184387.stm

The Magna Carta, the thin edge of the wedge that led to constitutional
govenment
was not a document proclaming democaracy and equality for all but did limit
the
powers of the King to raise taxes and dispense "justice" as well as a host
of
other matters.

As the article linked above, the best preserved copy of the Carta is 795
years
old today and resides in Salisbury Cathederal.
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