Brilliant Bodies: Fashioning Courtly Men in Early Renaissance Italy, , with Timothy Mc Call

In fifteenthcentury Italy, men like Lionello d Este, Marquis of Ferrara, were peacocks, strutting their stuff in scintillating brocades, armour, and jewels to attract attention both to physical beauty and to political power. In this podcast, Jonquil O Reilly, fashion historian and Old Master specialist at Christies, talks to Timothy McCall, Associate Professor of Art History at Villanova University. In a fascinating discussion about Tim s new book, Brilliant Bodies, they present us with a totally new perspective on male fashion in Quattrocento Italy, arguing that in this culture, elaborate costume not only supported but signified authority. , history, historypodcast, fashionhistory, artlover, famousart, artpodcast, arthistory, arthistorian, newpodcast, fashion, renaissance, renaissanceart