“This Hall Has the Look of a City”: Display Strategies for Wax Ex-Votos and Botticelli’s Compositions for the Adoration of the Magi This paper suggests that the deliberate, structured way in which wax ex-votos were arranged in the Florentine church of Santissima Annunziata should not be overlooked as a factor that contributed to t...

My first academic article, ‘“This Hall Has the Look of a City”: Display Strategies for Wax Ex-Votos and Botticelli’s Compositions for the Adoration of the Magi’ has been published in Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte Volume 89 Issue 1:

doi.org/10.1515/zkg-...

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Palampore (India); cotton; H x W: 289.6 x 137.2 cm (114 x 54 in.) Repeat H x W: 40.6 x 78.7 cm (16 x 31 in.); Museum purchase from Au Panier Fleuri Fund; 1959-146-1; Cooper Hewitt Museum. Public Domain.

Make sure to join us online on Monday 2 February for @amaterialworld.bsky.social talk 'Experiencing Chintz in Early Modern Japan: Global Textile Encounters and Local Printing Practices'

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A Material World - 'Experiencing Chintz in Early Modern Japan: Global Textile Encounters and Local Printing Practices'

Join us for our next event: 'Experiencing Chintz in Early Modern Japan: Global Textile Encounters and Local Printing Practices' by Keiko Suzuki (Ritsumeikan University)
🗓️ 2 Feb
🕰️ 5:30pm UK time
📍online @warburginstitute.bsky.social
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#textiles #history

📣One week today! @warburginstitute.bsky.social

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Life after the Warburg: Louisa McKenzie Warburg alumna Louisa McKenzie discusses her current research, the impact she hopes it will have and the routes her career has taken since leaving the Institute.

Ever wondered what Warburg alumni go on to do?

Our latest Life After the Warburg blog features @louisamckenzie.bsky.social, now a Research Associate on the UKRI-funded Art and Inequality in the Post-Black Death Century project at the University of Glasgow.

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📷 Visit of the King to the Manufacture of the Gobelins, after a design by Charles Le Brun, Gobelins Manufacture, c. 1729-34.
© GrandPalaisRmn (Château de Versailles) / Christian Jean / Jean Schormans. Supplied by speaker.

For our next event, Dr Barbara Lasic (Sothebys Institute of Art) will speak on ‘Crafting and Staging Magnificence: French Royal Manufactures as Sites of Diplomatic Encounters’.

🗓️ 12 January
🕰️ 5:30pm
📍online @warburginstitute.bsky.social

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📷 Supplied by speaker.

📣 For our first event for 2025-2026, Maria Golovteeva (@warburginstitute.bsky.social) will speak on ‘Visions of Nubia: Photographing and Researching Nubian Art in the 1970s’.

🔗 Book for free via the link in our bio.

#art #nubianart #photography #afterlives #arthistory #museums

📷: Carved and painted wooden Spirit Mask representing one of the spirits the Eskimo shaman must encounter. S.W. Alaska, this type also occurs among the Central Eskimo.
Wellcome Collection. Source: Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

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

📷: Carved and painted wooden Spirit Mask representing one of the spirits the Eskimo shaman must encounter. S.W. Alaska, this type also occurs among the Central Eskimo.
Wellcome Collection. Source: Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

♻️ 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

A Material World | Game of Thrones. Early Modern Playing Cards and Portrait Miniature Painting Please enable JavaScript in your web browser to get the best experience.

📺 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 ‼️
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#arthistory #renaissance #materialculture #games #portraits #funandgames #history

Image: “Queen of Stags”, from the earliest known deck of cards, the, “Stuttgart Playing Cards”, circa 1430, 19.1 × 12.1 cm. Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart.
Digital image courtesy of Landesmuseum Württemberg, Stuttgart (CC BY).

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

A Material World | Living work: recovering unrecorded histories through ordinary objects YouTube video by WarburgInstitute

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

Image: John Riley, Bridget Holmes, 1686, oil on canvas, Royal Collection Trust, RCIN 405667. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons with thanks to the Royal Collection Trust/ His Majesty The King/ Historic Royal Palaces.

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

Image: Ludwig Maximilian Mehemet von Königstreu, published by George Kitchin after Godfrey Kneller, mezzotint, 1715. National Portrait Gallery London, NPG D38146. Creative Commons CC.BY.NC.ND.

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'.
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#untoldhistory #materialculture #museums #curating #curatorial

A Material World - 'Living work: recovering unrecorded histories through ordinary objects'

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! ⬇️

A Material World - YouTube The 'A Material World' event series focuses on the reconstruction of life in the past through objects and materials, the people who made them and the people ...

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