Guided Tour | Spanish Style: Fashion Illuminated, 1550-1700
Hispanic Society Museum & Library, 3741 Broadway (between 155th and 156th Streets), New York, NY 10032
Join BSA for a guided tour—led by the curator, Amanda Wunder—of the Hispanic Society Museum & Library’s current exhibition, Spanish Style: Fashion Illuminated, 1550-1700. Registration is required and attendance is limited to 25 participants.
Attendees will also have the option to purchase the exhibition catalogue at a special discounted price of $25.
The exhibition features sixteen rarely seen manuscript letters of nobility illuminated with miniatures showing men, women, and children dressed in the latest courtly styles. These brilliantly colored family portraits, painted in painstaking detail, reveal how upwardly-mobile families manipulated their appearances and used their clothes to climb the social ladder in the Spanish Empire.
Spanish Style: Fashion Illuminated, 1550-1700 is curated by Amanda Wunder, a specialist on early modern Spanish art and culture, and author of Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velázquez: A Tailor at the Court of Philip IV (2024).