Renaissance Cosmetics

Talking History with Patrick Geoghegan

English - August 06, 2023 19:00 - 52 minutes - 48.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 27 ratings
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In this episode of Talking History, Patrick Geoghegan discusses:

New insights into plots and conspiracies against the life of Queen Elizabeth I with Calum Cockburn, Curator of Medieval Manuscripts at the British Library

Cosmetics in the Renaissance World, with Professor Jill Burke, Chair of Renaissance Visual and Material Cultures at the University of Edinburgh, author of ‘How To Be A Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty and Female Creativity’, a historian of the body and its visual representation, focusing on Italy and Europe from 1400-1700

And the female artists who blazed a trail in the Royal Hibernian Academy in Ireland, with Dr Caroline Campbell, Director, National Gallery of Ireland.