We are delighted to announce that A Material World will be returning for our 6th year of events @warburginstitute.bsky.social. The theme for this year is Encounters. Full programme to be announced soon. #materialculture #arthistory #history #globalhistory

♻️ Waste not, want not! Discover more about how parchments were reused and recycled in the 14th century, plus some of our discoveries in the archives, here: www.artandinequality.com/waste-and-re... #history #materialculture #waste #reuse #medievalbindings #medievalhistory #archives

Interested in the commissioning practices of late medieval non-elites? Give @artandinequality.bsky.social a follow to keep up to date with their latest news.

Interested in art commissions made by European non-elites between 1225 and 1525? Then give @artandinequality.bsky.social a follow! #arthistory #medieval #medievalhistory #testaments

📺 Now available to watch: 'Game of Thrones. Early Modern Playing Cards and Portrait Miniature Painting' Discover how playing cards became the unexpected canvas for miniature portraits in this talk by Karin Leonhard. warburg.sas.ac.uk/podcasts/a-m... @amaterialworld.bsky.social #ArtHistory

📣Happening next week ‼️ More details below⬇️ #arthistory #renaissance #materialculture #games #portraits #funandgames #history

Join us on 1 April (5:30pm), online @warburginstitute.bsky.social, to hear Karin Leonhard (Konstanz University) on ' #GameofThrones #EarlyModern #PlayingCards and Portrait Miniature Painting'. More details and book for free: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/a-mat... #arthistory #portraits #renaissance

Missed our most recent event at @warburginstitute.bsky.social? Never fear, you can catch up below: youtu.be/FqdGDYKtALs?... Go #behindthescenes of the exhibition Untold Lives: A Palace at Work held at Kensington Palace last year, with one of the curators, Dr Mishka Sinha. #history #earlymodern

Happening tomorrow online! Curator Mishka Sinha on 'Living work: recovering unrecorded histories through ordinary objects'. Book for free: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/a-mat... #untoldhistory #materialculture #museums #curating #curatorial #materialmonday

Join us on Tuesday (26/11) at 5:30pm, online at the Warburg Institute, to hear curator Mishka Sinha on 'Living work: recovering unrecorded histories through ordinary objects'. Book for free: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/a-mat... #untoldhistory #materialculture #museums #curating #curatorial

Go #behindthescenes of a recent exhibition at Kensington Palace with one of the curators, Mishka Sinha, in our next event, 'Living work: recovering unrecorded histories through ordinary objects' 📆 26/11 🕰️5:30pm 📍online @warburginstitute.bsky.social Book for free: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/a-mat...

Happening very soon! ⬇️

In the meantime, catch up with recordings of our previous events here: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

#socialhistory #historyoffashion #dresshistory #renaissance #materialculture #earlymodern #arthistory #politicalhistory

📣 One week to go until our first event of 2024-25! Hear Timothy McCall on ‘Dyes that Kill and Mordants that Bite: The Centres and Margins of Luxury in Renaissance Italy’. 📆 18 November 🕰️ 5:30pm UK time 📍online @warburginstitute.bsky.social 🔗 Book for free: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/a-mat...

A Material World is an event series hosted by the Warburg Institute which focuses on the reconstruction of life in the past through objects and materials, the people who made them and the people who used them. Find out more: warburg.sas.ac.uk/whats-on/mat... #materialculture #arthistory #museums

Have you booked for our next event yet? On 18/11, online, discover the role that clothing played in the representation and operation of aristocratic power in #earlymodern Europe. Find out more and book for free: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/a-mat... #socialhistory #historyoffashion #dresshistory

Hello new followers! Lovely to connect. I’m Louisa, a historian of late medieval and early Renaissance devotional (for the most part) art and material culture. I’ve worked a lot on wax sculpture and my main interests include: (cont’d)

Join us for our first event of 2024/5: Timothy McCall (Villanova) will speak on 'Dyes that Kill and Mordants that Bite: The Centres and Margins of Luxury in #Renaissance Italy' 📅 18 November ⏲️ 5:30pm (UK time) 📍online @warburginstitute.bsky.social Book for free: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/a-mat...

In the meantime, catch up with recordings of our previous events here: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

We're delighted to be back for another year at @warburginstitute.bsky.social. Our theme for this year is Work v. Play. We'll be announcing details of our exciting first events very soon! #materialculture #RenTwitter #MedievalMonday #MedievalTwitter #earlymodern