154 research outputs found
The Treasured Hunt: Collecting Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, Past, Present, and Future
Welcome and Opening Remarks: E. Ann Matter, University of Pennsylvania, and Lynn Ransom, Free Library of Philadelphia
Session 1. Beginnings: Collecting in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Session Chair: Emily Steiner, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
Claire Richter Sherman, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, The Manuscript Collection of King Charles V of France: The Personal and the Political
David Rundle, History Faculty and Corpus Christi College, Oxford University, The Butcher of England and the Renaissance Arts of Book-Collecting
Session 2: Civic Service: The Legacies of Philadelphia-Area Collectors
Chair: Peter Stallybrass, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
James Tanis, Director of Libraries and Professor of History Emeritus, Bryn Mawr College, Migrating Manuscripts
Derick Dreher, Director, The Rosenbach Museum & Library, Of Private Collectors and Public Libraries: Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach and John Frederick Lewis
Session 3: Keynote address
Welcome: H. Carton Rogers, Vice Provost & Director of Libraries, University of Pennsylvania
Chair: Robert Maxwell, Department of the History of Art, University of Pennsylvania
Christopher de Hamel, Gaylord Donnelley Fellow Librarian, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University, The Manuscript Collection of C. L. Ricketts (1859-1941)
Session 4: The Hunters and the Hunted: A Roundtable Discussion with Private and Institutional Collectors
Chair: David Wallace, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
Moderator: Richard Linenthal, Bernard Quaritch Ltd.
Panelists:
Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Private Collector
Gifford Combs, Private Collector
Toshiyuki Takamiya, Private Collector, Keio University
Consuelo Dutschke, Curator of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts, Columbia University
William Noel, Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books, The Walters Art Museu
Standardizing Slimness: How Body Weight Quantified Beauty in the Netherlands, 1870–1940
This chapter investigates the history of one of the most powerful quantitative beauty standards: weight. The chapter argues that weight is neither a natural nor a neutral standard for the beauty ideals of slimness and fatness. It is shown first how, in late nineteenth-century Netherlands, weight had not yet become a standard of beauty but was rather a bodily curiosity, measured at fairgrounds. The chapter then analyses Dutch newspaper advertisements for slimming remedies to show that, by the 1930s, weight was strongly established as a standard of beauty, scales having ceased to be a fairground attraction. The chapter concludes with an exploration of the consequences of this new standard of beauty, which complicated its character by partially separating it from the visual
“Clean nails are the mark of a well brought-up girl”: exploring gender in a post-Edwardian girls’ school exercise book
Jonathan Crewe. Hidden Designs. The critical profession and Renaissance literature. New York-London: Methuen, 1986. 7 pls. + viii + 181 pp. $33.
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