[Ansteorra] Florence anyone? (A tribute to Janet Arnold)

[HL Chiara Francesca]

Yep .... so a budget line item now!! :D

If enough folks want to go we may be able to get a group rate on flights, 
etc.

Everyone please go fill out the survey so that they can solidify the plans 
for the conference to really happen. Once they do that then we can plan a 
group outing to Florence. :)

Chiara
looking for her passport ... it was here somewhere ...


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Traci Baker" <traci at crimsonvision.net>
To: <Ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 9:37 AM
Subject: [Ansteorra] Florence anyone? (A tribute to Janet Arnold)


> Link: http://www.costume-textiles.com/index.htm
>
> Text for link-a-phobics:
> Janet Arnold's pioneering research into the cut and construction of 
> clothes
> from the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries provide invaluable
> information on clothing from the past.  Her series of publications
> entitled Patterns
> of Fashion continues to make a profound impact in many fields, from the
> re-creation of historic dance and other forms of re-enactment to designs 
> for
> stage, film and television.  For art historians and conservators too, her
> insights have proved an indispensable aid to historical research.
>
> For more than 10 years preceding her untimely death in 1998, Janet Arnold
> collaborated with Palazzo Pitti's Galleria del Costume conservation
> department in Florence.  Here she actively participated on the lengthy and
> difficult project of documenting and conserving the sixteenth century 
> Medici
> burial clothes (of Cosimo I, Eleonora di Toledo and one of their sons) on
> which she contributed to several publications.  Prior to this, she made
> several trips to Italy, and in particular to Florence, while researching 
> for
> her books on Patterns of Fashion.
>
> On the 10th anniversary of the passing away of this illustrious British
> costume historian, Florence would like to pay homage to her work done
> there.  In the plans are four days of study, lectures, on-sight tours and
> visits to significant sites specifically tailored to the participants'
> interests and essential to Janet's Arnold's work and to that of her
> followers. A variety of presentations by designers, historians and
> conservators will acknowledge the importance of Janet Arnold's work,
> especially thorough her understanding of costume cut and construction,
> placing it in the wider context of differing approaches through many media
> to a contemporary audience.
>
> The event will be on an international scale and involve the collaboration 
> of
> the most prestigious institutions and researchers in the fields of costume
> history, conservation, costume replication and/or as many collateral 
> fields
> as time and interest permit.
>
> The organizers are appealing not only to textile and dress conservators 
> and
> curators, art and costume historians, costume designers for stage, film 
> and
> televisions but also students in these disciplines and interested members 
> of
> the general public to attend this important and timely event.
>
> *Starts plotting how to get to Florence*
>
> XxX,
> Elizabeta
>
> *************************
> Lady Elizabeta di Valore della Rosa
> Steppes Equestrian Marshall
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