A Thin Red Line: the painted interior in early modern England

Focusing on the physical interface between painted surface and ‘main fabric’, this talk discusses the relationship between decorative painting and architecture in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.  What is the conceptual overlap between interior decoration and building infrastructure and what are the historiographical traditions that have pulled them apart?  The paper also touches on tapestry and its relationship with mural painting and it suggests that 1699 was a pivotal moment in the history of elite interior decoration.

This lecture is a joint Interdisciplinary Renaissance & Early Modern Seminar(IREMS) with The Eighteenth Century Studies Seminar, School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds

Image: La Galerie de l’hostel royal des Gobelins ©Trustees of the British Museum