• Date and time: Tuesday 18 March 2025, 5pm to 7pm
  • Location: B/S/104
  • Admission: Free admission, booking required

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Please join us for the History of Art Research Seminar “Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velázquez: A Tailor at the Court of Philip IV” with Professor Amanda Wunder (Lehman College & CUNY Graduate Center) on Tuesday, 18 March, 5-7pm in BS/104 (Berrick Saul Building, Treehouse).

This event is co-hosted with the Centre for Renaissance and Early Modern Studies (CREMS), and will be followed by a drinks reception in the History of Art department foyer.

Amanda Wunder will speak about her latest book, Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velázquez: A Tailor at the Court of Philip IV, which reconstructs the life and work of Mateo Aguado, a court tailor who dressed many of Diego Velázquez's most famous portrait sitters. None of the garments that Aguado made survive today, but this book brings them to life through archival documents, portraits, and surviving fragments of material evidence. Focusing attention on the fascinating world of court artisans, Wunder inserts a previously anonymous tailor into the canon as a major figure of Golden-Age Spanish culture.

Image caption: Diego Velázquez, Queen Mariana of Austria, 1652-53. Oil on canvas. Museo del Prado.

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Department of History of Art

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