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Elizabeth Currie @ecurrie.bsky.social · 19h

The Museum of the Order of St John is hosting a launch event for my book on 22 October. I'll be talking about the paintings of Mattia Preti, dress, textiles and life in Malta in the seventeenth century.
🗃️🪡 #earlymodern
📷 Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/talk-matti...

Two men and a woman playing music and a game of draughts seated around a table in a dark interior. They are wearing brightly coloured, striped clothing.

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Elizabeth Currie @ecurrie.bsky.social · 1d

If you're in Cambridge next Thursday I'll be talking about my new book for the Early Modern World Seminar - they have a great line up this term!
#earlymodern

www.hist.cam.ac.uk/event-series...

Early Modern World History | Faculty of History University of Cambridge

www.hist.cam.ac.uk

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Elizabeth Currie @ecurrie.bsky.social · 11d

Another AI triumph
#earlymodern
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

AI analysis finds £71,000 painting dismissed as copy is a Caravaggio

Exclusive: Study gives 85.7% probability Badminton House version of The Lute Player is by 17th-century master

www.theguardian.com

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Elizabeth Currie @ecurrie.bsky.social · 16d

I'll be talking to Caravaggio expert Helen Langdon about the artist's varied sources of inspiration at the National Gallery next Monday.

#earlymodern

www.nationalgallery.org.uk/events/carav...

Caravaggio's world: Elizabeth Currie and Helen Langdon in conversation | Events | National Gallery, London

Two art historians discuss Caravaggio's world on his birthday.

www.nationalgallery.org.uk

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Elizabeth Currie @ecurrie.bsky.social · 18d

The Barbican's first fashion show in eight years opens next week: 'Dirty Looks: Desire and Decay in Fashion'.
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www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/202...

Dirty Looks | Barbican

Rebel against conventional beauty and take a look at the dirty side of fashion.

www.barbican.org.uk

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Elizabeth Currie @ecurrie.bsky.social · 19d

A great opportunity to get close up to some fifteenth-century printed books at this short talk at the Victoria and Albert Museum on Monday.
#earlymodern

www.vam.ac.uk/event/yO4oRy...

National Art Library and Archive talks (Monday at 11.30 except Bank Holidays) - Talk at V&A South Kensington · V&A

Join National Art Library and V&A Archive staff each Monday for a short talk on an item of their choosing. Museum visitors will encounter some extraordinary collection items and experience the Victori...

www.vam.ac.uk

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Elizabeth Currie @ecurrie.bsky.social · 22d

It does look a bit opinionated

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Elizabeth Currie @ecurrie.bsky.social · 22d

Giovanni Bellini's Saint Jerome with an impressive tunic, complete with side clip and mini bag. Currently on display at The Courtauld Gallery with other paintings loaned from The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham.
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Detail of Saint Jerome's draped white linen tunic

Saint Jerome seated opposite a lion with a thorn in his paw in a rocky landscape by Giovanni Bellini, c. 1455

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Elizabeth Currie @ecurrie.bsky.social · Sep 8

Looking forward to this talk at The Wallace Collection - an event linked to their Caravaggio display opening in November.
#earlymodern

Reaktion Books @reaktionbooks.bsky.social · Sep 8

Get your tickets! Join Dr Elizabeth Currie to gain fresh perspectives on some of Caravaggio’s best known paintings, and the life experiences of those depicted.

🎟️ Friday 12 December 2025
6.30pm
The Wallace Collection

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Elizabeth Currie @ecurrie.bsky.social · Sep 4

Women textile designers for Liberty are the focus of the new exhibition opening at the William Morris Gallery next month - so many fabulous pieces to choose from! #textilehistory
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www.wmgallery.org.uk/event/women-...

Women in Print

An exhibition exploring the evolving influence and status of women in textiles over the past 150 years, through the lens of Liberty Fabrics.

www.wmgallery.org.uk

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Elizabeth Currie @ecurrie.bsky.social · Sep 4

www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025...

Elegant, determined, a little unknowable: Giorgio Armani is gone but will never be forgotten

The designer reinvented power dressing, redefined what it meant to look modern and was the architect of how we dress now

www.theguardian.com

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Elizabeth Currie @ecurrie.bsky.social · Aug 28

Just discovered that the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library is now open access, including my article from 2019 on clothing, health and the body in #earlymodern England and Italy.
🗃️🪡

www.manchesterhive.com/view/journal...

www.manchesterhive.com

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Elizabeth Currie @ecurrie.bsky.social · Aug 3

The Velasco show at the National Gallery, London, is well worth a visit before it closes on 17 August. As well as epic landscapes, it offers a glimpse into Mexico's burgeoning textile industry in the nineteenth century.
#textilehistory

A volcanic peak rises up behind extensive plains covered with lush vegetation. The buildings of a textile mill can be seen towards the horizon.

A goatherd follows his flock on the banks next to an industrial dam supplying the textile mill La Hormiga shown on the right of the painting.

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Elizabeth Currie @ecurrie.bsky.social · Aug 1

Early career, fixed-term curatorial fellowship focusing on European paintings 1600-1800 at the National Gallery, London. #earlymodern #arthistory
jobs.theguardian.com/job/9693493/...

The Vimar Curatorial Fellow (Paintings 1600 - 1800) - London (Central), London (Greater) job with THE NATIONAL GALLERY | 9693493

The National Gallery invites applications for the Vivmar Curatorial Fellowship, a 22-month paid position starting in October 2025.

jobs.theguardian.com

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Elizabeth Currie @ecurrie.bsky.social · Jul 20

Serbian textile designer Bernat Klein's 'dilapidated' modernist textile studio is being sold at auction. Klein's client list included Chanel and Victor Stiebel.
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A-listed brutalist studio up for sale at £18,000 - BBC News

The dilapidated studio of textile designer Bernat Klein is to go on sale with a guide price of £18,000.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Elizabeth Currie @ecurrie.bsky.social · Jul 13

It's hard to conceive of how much work was involved!

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Elizabeth Currie @ecurrie.bsky.social · Jul 13

The portrait collection at Knole @nationaltrust.org.uk lived up to expectations - especially the newly conserved painting of Ralph Bosville.
#earlymodern 🗃️🪡

Detail of a portrait of Mary Curzon with an elaborately embroidered dress and ostrich feather fan.

Portrait of Mary Sackville by William Larkin with an embroidered bodice and her hair twisted in sections to fan out around her head.

Portrait of the French author Ninon de Lenclos with striking braided hair and a pearl necklace.

Detail of portrait of Ralph Bosville with a magnificently pinked matching doublet and hose in shiny black satin with a red lining.

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Ariane Fennetaux @arianefennetaux.bsky.social · Jul 7

🧵One week to go! 🧵The deadline for submission to our conference on the crafts of fashion and space is July 15th
mappingfashionsavoirfaire4.wordpress.com

Mapping Fashion Savoir Faire: Craft, Space and Scale 16th-21st centuries

Paris, International Conference 11th-13th December

mappingfashionsavoirfaire4.wordpress.com

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Elizabeth Currie @ecurrie.bsky.social · Jun 25

The latest addition to the 'Studies in Design and Material Culture' series @manchesterup.bsky.social on the ways historical interiors have been re-presented for contemporary audiences.📣

Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · Jun 24

Out today in our #SDMC series 🛋️

'Reassembling the social interior: Historical spaces from contemporary viewpoints', ed. helmccorm.bsky.social‬, Jennifer Gray & Anne Nellis Richter

📍At the intersection of heritage, design history and contemporary artmanchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526176912/

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Elizabeth Currie @ecurrie.bsky.social · Jun 12

You're on a roll! 👏👏

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Elizabeth Currie @ecurrie.bsky.social · Jun 10

Great news that Flora Dennis will be joining the Warburg Institute as Deputy Director in October 👏 #earlymodern

The Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social · Jun 9

We’re delighted to announce that Professor Flora Dennis will join the Warburg Institute in October as Deputy Director. She brings extensive research leadership and experience working with museums.

Welcome, Flora!

warburg.sas.ac.uk/news/warburg...

Warburg Institute appoints new Deputy Director

warburg.sas.ac.uk

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Elizabeth Currie @ecurrie.bsky.social · May 28

A Guardian review of V&A East Storehouse. Perhaps a surprising choice of object given his dislike of the recent Sargent exhibition exploring links between art and fashion.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign....

‘The national museum of absolutely everything’: new V&A outpost is an architectural delight

Poison darts, a dome from Spain, priceless spoons and Frank Lloyd Wright furniture … our architecture critic is wowed by how the V&A East Storehouse lets visitors ‘breathe the same air’ as its 250,000...

www.theguardian.com

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · May 19

ANNOUNCING 🔔

'Renaissance skin' by @evelynwelch.bsky.social - prev. winner of @wolfsonhistory.bsky.social

A magnificently illustrated study of skin in Renaissance Europe, coming 1st July 💎

What happens when you see skin differently?

@bristoluni.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social

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Elizabeth Currie @ecurrie.bsky.social · May 22

Congratulations - looking forward to reading it!

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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · May 16

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Early Modern History, Material Culture & Heritage- 1 yr research post working on ‘Knotted Histories: Early Modern Global Carpets, Global Exchange and the Public Country House’ - University of Oxford - Faculty of English #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNC287/p...

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Early Modern History, Material Culture & Heritage at University of Oxford

Discover Postdoctoral Research Associate in Early Modern History, Material Culture & Heritage jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.

www.jobs.ac.uk

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