Renaissance Fashion in Venice and Florence

A fairly concise overview of Italian fashion during the renaissance, with particular focus on Venice and Florence. The script of this video essay was extracted from a larger research paper I submitted while I was obtaining my bachelor s. Most of my sources are, unsurprisingly, paintings from the time period. For further reading, please see my bibliography below. 0:00 Introduction 0:32 Historical Context 3:05 Culture 5:47 Politics 8:42 Religion 12:35 Gender 14:06 Conclusion Bibliography 1 Campagnol, Isabella. Forbidden Fashions: Invisible Luxuries in Early Venetian Convents. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2014. 2 Chojnacki, Stanley. Women and Men in Renaissance Venice: Twelve Essays on Patrician Society. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. 3 Currie, Elizabeth, ed. A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion: In the Renaissance. London, Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. 4 Currie, Elizabeth. Fashion and Masculinity in Renaissance Florence. London, Bloo