Megan Cifarelli, ed., Fashioned Selves: Dress and Identity in Antiquity

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confident hand and a fine understanding of perspective and colour. In delving in such detail into the Spanish interlude in Grognard’s long and productive life, this book underlines the many aesthetic, financial, linguistic, social and technical skills that prepared this talented manufacturer’s son to serve elite clients in different European states and unexpectedly rise to the position of Inspector of the Mobilier Imp erial in 1813. After his death he was hailed as a role model for pupils at the Lyonnais Ecole des Beaux-Arts to which he left a substantial legacy. Textiles were at the heart of his life’s work; Spanish royal family and grandees were key to his success in his fourth decade.