ITA 262E Short Paper 1
Write 2/3 pages on one of the following topics:
§ Men in Black in Renaissance Italian Fashion and Art
§ The Rules of Renaissance Italian Fashion: grazia, sprezzatura and affettazione
§ Femininity and Masculinity in Renaissance Italian Fashion
§ The Clothed Body and the Naked Body in Renaissance Italy
§ Shaping Renaissance Fashion through Image and Text
§ Women’s Clothing for Marriage and Convent in Early-modern Italy
Address in detail at least one primary source (Castiglione, Vecellio, Tarabotti) and make specific references to at least two secondary sources (Barnard, Currie, one essay by Collier Frick, or one chapter by Paulicelli).
Include, whenever possible and relevant, some reflections on the role of geography, politics, gender, class, economy, and taste in shaping fashion.
Tell me something new, specific, and relevant to your topic that you discovered by reading the sources.
Titian, Man with a Glove (1520) and Portrait of a Lady (1536-1538)
