Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velázquez: A Tailor at the Court of Philip IV

Book Talk by Amander Wunder, Professor of History and Art History at the City University of New York, Lehman College and CUNY Graduate Center

Amanda Wunder will speak about her latest book, Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velázquez: A Tailor at the Court of Philip IV, which reconstructs the life and work of Mateo Aguado, a court tailor who dressed many of Diego Velázquez’s most famous portrait sitters. None of the garments that Aguado made survive today, but this book brings them to life through archival documents, portraits, and surviving fragments of material evidence. Focusing attention on the fascinating world of court artisans, Wunder inserts a previously anonymous tailor into the canon as a major creative figure of Golden-Age Spanish culture.

This talk is presented as part of the Early Modern Cosmopolitanisms Lecture series, hosted by the UCLA Department of Spanish & Portuguese and co-sponsored by the UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies.