Professor Amelia Rauser (Franklin and Marshall College), Lady Hamilton, Naples, and Neoclassical Fas

10/10 6pm: Professor Amelia Rauser (Franklin and Marshall College), Lady Hamilton, Naples, and Neoclassical Fashion in the Eighteenth Century

This talk will explore how the heady atmosphere of 18th-century Naples fueled the fashion for neoclassicism, including the high-waisted white dresses that became fashionable in the 1790s. The "attitudes" of Emma Hamilton, which she performed hundreds of times for visiting artists and dignitaries in Naples, ignited a longing for an embodied, even libidinal neoclassicism quite different from the cold formalism we might now associate with the style.

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