[MR] Research Opportunity: Exhibition at the Getty

[Marie Stewart]

I just saw this come across the Medieval Textile list:

For anyone who might find themselves in Los Angeles this summer.

Getty (Los Angeles, CA, USA) :
http://www.getty.edu/visit/exhibitions/future.html

Fashion in the Middle Ages
May 31–August 14, 2011

The figures that inhabited the illuminated pages of medieval manuscripts
could be recognized at a glance by the clothing they wore. Artists
used costumes to identify people by profession or to  place them in a social
hierarchy. Yet, as this exhibition demonstrates, illuminations did
not provide accurate depictions of dress. Wealthy patrons commissioned
images of a perfect world, filled with glamorous versions of themselves
and rather too-well-dressed peasants, while biblical figures were given a
"historical" wardrobe that mixed ancient and contemporary elements.

For those of us who live too far, there is the catalogue:
http://shop.getty.edu/product878.html
Scott, Margaret. Fashion in the Middle Ages. Los
Angeles: Getty Publications, 2011. 24cm.,
hardcover, 112pp., 88 color illus. Exhibition
catalogue. ISBN: 9781606060612 $19.95 Available June 2011.

Margaret Scott is the former head of the History  of Dress department at the
Courtauld Institute of  Art, London, and a world-renowned authority on
medieval clothing. She is the author of Medieval  Clothing and Costumes:
Displaying Wealth and  Class in Medieval Times (The Rosen Publishing Group,
2004). "

Happy Hunting.
Bridgette