TEST RECORD PLEASE IGNORE. A gift for Eleonora

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Oddey, A ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8585-2867, 2015. TEST RECORD PLEASE IGNORE. A gift for Eleonora. [Digital or Visual Media]

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Item Type:	Digital or Visual Media
Creators:	Oddey, A.
Publisher:	Eleonora Press
Date:	March 2015
Abstract:	‘A gift for Eleonora’ investigates the cultural value of the arts for health, happiness and well-being as a cultural health intervention for public engagement. Eleonora di Toledo (1522-1562), was a Spanish noblewoman, who married into the Medici dynasty, and was the first Duchess of Florence in Renaissance Italy. I researched, devised and wrote the performance text, taking the funeral dress of Eleonora, restored over 12 years and housed in the Galleria del Costume in the Palazzo Pitti; the site-specificity of Filippo Brunelleschi’s design and plan of the Cappella dei Pazzi, a masterpiece of Renaissance architecture in the Basilica di Santa Croce; Agnolo Bronzino’s portrait of ‘Eleonora of Toledo with her son Giovanni’ c.1545 located in the Galleria degli Uffizi, and the Early Renaissance form of a madrigal of voices as the starting points for experimentation. My interdisciplinary research process builds on previous publications of the performing lives of women and research themes of identity, motherhood and being. I have investigated renaissance history, memory, art and identity in Europe from the visual culture of Bronzino’s portraiture of Eleonora di Toledo, the interrogation of her world of fashion, textiles and trade, her attitude to health, well-being and the apothecary’s cabinet, through to the literature of Tullia d’Aragona’s poetry as search for self-expression and identity. As part of these identity making research processes, I interviewed contemporary Florentine aristocracy, which involved them bringing a gift for Eleonora, a fashion memento that was particularly special to them and linked to the cultural heritage, history and life of Eleonora di Toledo. Edited footage of these filmed interviews in March 2015 at the Villa Favard in Florence was used to make the trailer for the performance, see website. From original historical documents, the use of portraiture as document for a period and the interrogation of textile as the principle decorative medium in how fabrics were woven, dyed, printed and stitched to give varying textures, has created a life lived through performance and the mediums of language, fashion and culture.
Description:	Performances: UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Basilica di Santa Croce, in the Cappella dei Pazzi, Florence, Italy, May 13-15, 2015. UNESCO World Heritage City of Bath, Roman Baths, as part of the Bath Literature Festival, 3 March 2016. [1] Script. [2] Image 1. [3] Image 2. [4] Image 3.
Rights:	[1] Script: Copyright © Alison Oddey 2016. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronically of mechanically , including photocopying, recording or any information storage or retrieval system, without either prior permission in writing from the publisher or a license permitting restricted copying. In the United Kingdom such license are issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency: 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1P 0LP. Performance rights can be given once written permission has been received from the publishers. Eleonora Press: eleonorapress2016@gmail.com.
Official URL:	http://eleonoradetoledo.com/
Related URLs:	https://vimeo.com/128257642 https://vimeo.com/128257642
Divisions:	Schools > School of Art and Design
Record created by:	Jill Tomkinson
Date Added:	10 Jun 2016 09:53
Last Modified:	06 Jul 2017 08:39
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/27957
Licencing:	A gift for Eleonora Script.docx - Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives