Street Style: Art and Dress in the Time of Caravaggio

A revealing portrait of class relations during the Italian Renaissance explored through the artistic representations of clothing.

In late sixteenth-century Rome, artists found inspiration in bustling streets and taverns, depicting soldiers, Romani fortune tellers, sex workers, and servants among the city’s poorest inhabitants. Street Style explores these hidden lives, uncovering how the stories of ordinary people are preserved through their clothing and appearances in art. Written records ...