Symposium on 'Two Women Wearing Cosmetic Patches'
September 11 2024
Picture: YCBA
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Yale Center for British Art will be hosting a symposium on 27th September 2024 on the subject of A Puritan Picture: Vanity, Morality, and Race in Seventeenth-Century Britain. The focus will of course be research into Compton Verney's newly acquired Two Women Wearing Cosmetic Patches, which regular readers of this blog will remember.
Here's a brief list of the presentations and speakers:
Opening Talk — A Painter for a Puritan Picture? - Edward Town
Panel I — Women, Dress, and Morality - Chair: Elizabeth Cleland alongside Jennifer Wu and Jemma Field.
Panel II — Bodies and Voices - Chair: Patricia Fumerton alongside Haijiao Wang, Todd Simmons, Jane Partner and Katherine Aske.
Keynote — Cosmetics and Cultures of Beauty - Chair: Erin Griffey alongside Jill Burkeand Evelyn Welch.
Closing Discussion — Exhibiting the Painting - Chair: Edward Town alongside Oli McCall and Jane Simpkiss.
It appears that the symposium might be free to attend in-person and online. Click on the link to find details for registration.
