Finishing a great day with a discussion about what will happen when the painting returns to Compton Verney in Warwickshire. Very appropriately the painting will be displayed in the Women's Library with additional materials to provide greater context.

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Getting ready for the 'Puritan Picture' symposium at Yale. Our Renaissance Skin group wanted to club together and bid for this picture when it was valued at 16k, but it has gone to a good home at Compton Verney and has been splendidly restored at the Yale Center for British Art. #earlymodern

Now up - Katherine Aske with a paper showing how cosmetics and health practices overlap.really interesting to see how the same royalist publisher, Richard Royston, is involved in many of the anti-cosmetic publications.

Instructive examples in poetry and prose from the same period as the Compton Verney picture.

Jane Partner, Trinity Hall Cambridge, explores anxieties about how outward appearance could hide inward identity. She looks at emblems painted by Lady Anne Dury in Ipswich and other cultural tropes contrasting black and white skin.

Next panel...chaired by @jemmafield.bsky.social@toddsimmons.bsky.social Jane Partner and Katie Aske.

Jennifer Wu and @jemmafield.bsky.social discuss the striped garment in the painting. Striped clothing originally associated with exotic figures and non- Christians. But as striped Indian textiles become popular in Englad, particularly for men, the moralising messages become more complex.

Next session on dress and morality!