The Fondazione Arte della Seta Lisio is pleased to celebrate the recent agreement with the Giovanni Secco Suardo Association, a renowned and prestigious international centre for studies and projects in the conservation and restoration of Cultural Heritage, featuring a study focused on the clothing and textile aspects in Moroni’s Portrait of the Knight Pietro Secco Suardo (Uffizi Galleries, Florence).

The historical and clothing analysis of the frescoes of Palazzo Acaia (Pinerolo) presented here, in addition to marking the recent scientific and cultural collaboration with the Italia Nostra Association – Pinerolese Section (Turin), is part of the broader field of material culture studies. The clothing analysis is provided as an attachment in its complete version.

On the occasion of the exhibition, the Fondazione Arte della Seta Lisio, thanks to the scientific collaboration with the Accademia Carrara established in 2018, carried out an in-depth analysis of the clothing aspects depicted in the portrait of the Queen of Spain and in the Portrait of a Young Boy (the Infante Balthasar Carlos?), attributed to Alonso Cano, from the Guglielmo Lochis Collection of the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo.

The historical and clothing analysis of Portrait of a Young Gentleman by Fra’ Galgario presented here, in addition to marking the recent scientific and educational collaboration with the Accademia Carrara in Bergamo, forms part of the broader field of material culture studies. The article is presented here in an abridged version, while the complete version is available for free download.

On the occasion of the celebrations for the 500th anniversary of the birth of Giovan Battista Moroni, Fondazione Arte della Seta Lisio commemorates the birth of the great Bergamo painter with a study focusing on clothing and textile aspects in six masterpieces from the collections of the Accademia Carrara of Bergamo, Fondazione Palazzo Moroni of Bergamo, and the National Gallery in London.

The Stendardo di Orzinuovi, created in 1514 by Vincenzo Foppa, provides us with an authentic image of fashion in Lombardy in the first decade of the 16th century, an example of how clothing, in both the Milan and Bergamo-Brescia area, was still influenced by a style typical of the late 15th century.