*Nov. 9 2008 visit

I promised photos of our audience with an enactment actor playing the Duchess Elenora di Toledo back in December so here are a few from that event:

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Nov. 9-

After wandering around and snapping tons of photos of the map room we were escorted into territory not open to the other visitors into a hallway of costume reproductions laid our for our viewing. We ended up in the Monumental quarters and apartment of Elenora di Toldeo. I’ll post photos of our audience with an enactment actor playing the Duchess Elenora di Toledo.

Photos of the costume reproductions:

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Some images from upstairs from the Renaissance dresses. Spent some time up there while it was a mob scene down at the Countess’s gown.

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We were given permission to play with some of the props:

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Food! Meat, meat, and lard.

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The pamphlet given to us explains “Cerratelli Foundation opened in 2005 at San Biuliano Terme (Pisa), a product of the will of the Director Floridia Benedettini and preserved a heratige of over 25,000 stage costumes, coming from “Casa d’Arte Cerratelli”, housed in Florence, the tailoring and dressmaking establishment served theatre and cinema from 1916 to 1995.”

There was a display up of pieces from multiple productions:
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The third dress we were able to observe showing the center front seam:

The gowns were handled by the curator to show some specifics of what they found. Do not worry that wasn’t a stray hand reaching out to touchy touchy.
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Some of use went on an optional trip to the Laboratorio Centro Restauro Tessili in the Cittadella of Pisa for a private viewing of the Renaissance dresses from the Museo Nazionale di Palazzo Reale. I’m going to share some photos of what others have dubbed the “new” Eleonora di Toledo gown or the “red” Eleonora gown:

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Nov. 8

One more batch of “social” pictures. I promise I’ll come back to all the days and events in due time. In the Pitti palace camera’s were not allowed so I got to practice my sketching skills and purchased a small booklet with some of the costuming. I’m still not sure if I’m brave enough to share any of the crude sketches.

The auto copyright kept going over the bag so here it is without. Much of the time walking around Firenze you’d notice the black bags, a gift from the Colloquium, wandering around. At first I used them to identify other participants. Eventually I started recognizing faces I loved this shot because her shawl demonstrates a technique discussed in one of the classes.

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A few more photos of the museum to give a feeling for walking around along with some people shots. Laying on the floor to get the right shot was not an infrequent event.

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