Anna Dumont

Anna Dumont was the 2022–23 Mellon COSI Fellow in the Department of Textiles at the Art Institute. She is currently a fellow in the Weddigen Department at the Bibliotheca Hertziana–Max Planck Institute in Rome. While working towards a PhD in art history at Northwestern, her work has been supported by the Delmas Foundation, the American Academy in Rome, and the Center for the Advanced Study of the Visual Arts at the National Gallery in Washington.

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Red-Handed: Exposing Renaissance Velvet Workshop Practices

Weaving silk velvet was a slow and complex process, involving costly raw materials. Did that occasionally inspire the cutting of corners?

Anna Dumont, Isaac Facio, Ken Sutherland, and Giovanni Verri

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