Sharing the Medici Archive with the World.

MAP FORUM PRESENTS: Tuesday, 17 March @ 5pm EST/10pm CET

This talk will address European culture’s complicated relationship with feathers. While plumes and featherwork are most often associated with the Americas, they were also widely employed in the Old Continent for crafting practical tools and for fashion. This talk will focus on the appreciation and rejection of feathers in Europe, as well as how religion, the characteristics of local ornithological species and Mediterranean trade interacted to shape these responses between the late Middle Ages and the sixteenth century. Corinna Tania Gallori is currently a researcher of the project Building a Renaissance. Networks of Artists and Patrons from Ticino and Lombardy in Rome (1417-1527).