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The painting "Two Ladies Wearing Cosmetic Patches" is on loan to the Yale Center for British Art from Compton Verney Art Gallery and Park, Warwickshire, UK, for conservation treatment and a collaborative research project.
The YCBA, in partnership with Compton Verney, will host a symposium to increase understanding of the painting on Friday, September 27. Topics include the painting’s provenance, attribution, and future display; the cloth trade in seventeenth-century England, Africa, and India; and evolving perceptions of beauty standards, including a keynote conversation focusing on cosmetic patches.
Learn more about the symposium: https://britishart.yale.edu/exhibitions-programs/puritan-picture-vanity-morality-and-race-seventeenth-century-britain
#art #britain #conservation #yale #yalebritishart
The painting "Two Ladies Wearing Cosmetic Patches" is on loan to the Yale Center for British Art from Compton Verney Art Gallery and Park, Warwickshire, UK, for conservation treatment and a collaborative research project.
The YCBA, in partnership with Compton Verney, will host a symposium to increase understanding of the painting on Friday, September 27. Topics include the painting’s provenance, attribution, and future display; the cloth trade in seventeenth-century England, Africa, and India; and evolving perceptions of beauty standards, including a keynote conversation focusing on cosmetic patches.
Learn more about the symposium: https://britishart.yale.edu/exhibitions-programs/puritan-picture-vanity-morality-and-race-seventeenth-century-britain
#art #britain #conservation #yale #yalebritishart
