"Comment m'habillerai-je ?": Se vêtir sous la Révolution française (1789-1804). Histoire Artists as well as craftsmen

Artists as well as craftsmen

The Middle Ages saw striped fabrics as diabolical

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The corpus also demonstrates the links that are established with architectural formulas adopted in the north of Italy

"Comment m'habillerai-je ?": Se vêtir sous la Révolution française (1789-1804). Histoire Artists as well as craftsmenFrench society at the end of the 18th century was marked by a culture of appearances. The Revolution marked a shift in the way people dressed. This exhibition catalog explores clothing as a social marker through a study of the iconography of the period. The evolution of female silhouettes, the use of fabrics, and the political message conveyed by clothing are all explored.