How can students arrive at a closer understanding of the material culture that shaped the lives of the French aristocracy and nascent bourgeoisie of late eighteenth-century France? This is one of the challenges that students face in the first-year seminar, Re-Membering Marie Antoinette, as they study the multiple and conflicting ways that Marie Antoinette was and has been represented in biographies, portraits, memoirs, fiction, film, fashion, plays and pornographic pamphlets, records of her trial in 1793, and the spaces and activies that shaped her daily life. This article focuses on a series of scaffolded assignments that lead students to imagine what Marie Antoinette’s daily life might have been like by exploring the material culture of t...
In this article Rebecca Tilles relates the story of the commission for Marie Antoinette’s first jewe...
In the sixteenth century, few Europeans wore undergarments; by the nineteenth century, undergarments...
Miniatures were a popular medium of early modern material court culture and representation, symbolis...
How can students arrive at a closer understanding of the material culture that shaped the lives of t...
This article explores fashion collecting and dress exhibitions in nineteenth-century France. The fir...
Four colleagues--a faculty member, a digital services librarian, a research librarian, and a curator...
Four colleagues--a faculty member, a digital services librarian, a research librarian, and a curator...
The style of Rococo evokes a variety of feminine attributions; women were usually depicted in works ...
DELALEX Hélène, MARAL Alexandre et MILOVANOVIC Nicolas, Marie-Antoinette, Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty...
Writing Material Culture History examines the methodologies currently used in the historical study o...
The style of Rococo evokes a variety of feminine attributions; women were usually depicted in works ...
This lecture and publication will explore how dress – in its material form – inspires and informs my...
A diatribe against Marie-Antoinette originated in France during the mid-eighteenth-century and has c...
This collection of essays, co-edited with Katie Scott, redefines the study of the decorative arts in...
Dress Books for the use of painters : an editorial purpose for historical paintings (18th-19th centu...
In this article Rebecca Tilles relates the story of the commission for Marie Antoinette’s first jewe...
In the sixteenth century, few Europeans wore undergarments; by the nineteenth century, undergarments...
Miniatures were a popular medium of early modern material court culture and representation, symbolis...
How can students arrive at a closer understanding of the material culture that shaped the lives of t...
This article explores fashion collecting and dress exhibitions in nineteenth-century France. The fir...
Four colleagues--a faculty member, a digital services librarian, a research librarian, and a curator...
Four colleagues--a faculty member, a digital services librarian, a research librarian, and a curator...
The style of Rococo evokes a variety of feminine attributions; women were usually depicted in works ...
DELALEX Hélène, MARAL Alexandre et MILOVANOVIC Nicolas, Marie-Antoinette, Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty...
Writing Material Culture History examines the methodologies currently used in the historical study o...
The style of Rococo evokes a variety of feminine attributions; women were usually depicted in works ...
This lecture and publication will explore how dress – in its material form – inspires and informs my...
A diatribe against Marie-Antoinette originated in France during the mid-eighteenth-century and has c...
This collection of essays, co-edited with Katie Scott, redefines the study of the decorative arts in...
Dress Books for the use of painters : an editorial purpose for historical paintings (18th-19th centu...
In this article Rebecca Tilles relates the story of the commission for Marie Antoinette’s first jewe...
In the sixteenth century, few Europeans wore undergarments; by the nineteenth century, undergarments...
Miniatures were a popular medium of early modern material court culture and representation, symbolis...