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34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
University of Manchester
Dressing for Heaven: Religious Clothing in Italy, 1215-1545
This book (85,000 words inc. footnotes) significantly moves away from using visual images merely to reconstruct dress, and instead investigates clothing images as integral to religious culture. This involved analysis of primary sources, some previously untranslated, on dress regulations within religious orders, material from exempla collections, theological works. The material was considered critically in relation to a corpus of images showing religious clothing / clothing in a religious context. Research involved travel across Italy (visiting archives, galleries and churches in Rome, Siena, Bologna, Naples, Padua, Orvieto, Paganico, San Gimignano, Assisi, Rome, Venice, Trieste) during a period totalling over 30 months.
