A white silk gown in fragments is splayed flat on a surface, softly lit from above. It has a train and is badly stained by the decomposition of the body that once wore it. It is embroidered in now-tarnished silver in wide bands along the edges.

Dear Internet:

I have now been PHYSICALLY PRESENT in the SAME ROOM as the burial gown of Eleonora di Toledo!!!

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