Medieval Costume Lecture Demonstration at The CloistersBy STAN PARCHIN
February 19, 2010
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| The Cloisters Museum and Gardens (exterior). Photograph by Robert Alan Espino. |
The
Cloisters Museum and Gardens,
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's branch devoted to the art and architecture of the Middle Ages, is hosting a medieval costume lecture demonstration on Sunday, February 28, 2010 at 1:00 P.M. and 3:00 P.M. Offered in conjunction with the special exhibition
The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry (March 2-June 13, 2010), the event is free with museum admission.
Costume historian Desirée Koslin describes and discusses medieval costumes modeled by some 30 citizens of Nijmegen, The Netherlands, the original home of the three Limbourg brothers who produced the famed illuminated manuscripts known as the
Belles Heures and the
Très Riches Heures. Duchess Catherine of Cleves (1417-1476), her
Book of Hours the subject of an exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum (January 22-May 2, 2010), resided in a castle there for some time. All of the costumes on view are contemporary in construction, with a number of them having been inspired by ones depicted in the Limbourg brothers' two volumes. They include garments worn by dukes, duchesses, courtly ladies, merchants, citizens, servants and peasants.
Attendees may take photographs without flash of Nijmegen's costumed citizens during the presentation's intermission.