The dress of the queen

Name: El vestido de la reina
Start: 2023-09-16T11:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Musée national et domaine du château de Pau

16 i 17 septiembre 2023Passed

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The dress of the queen

Reconstruction of a Renaissance dress by a costume designer, Laura Noël. On a full-length portrait kept at the castle, Henri IV’s mother, Jeanne d'Albret, wears a beautiful and sober mourning dress. What are the meanings of this outfit of the Protestant queen? What was the female fashion in the middle of the sixteenth century? And how can we reproduce such a garment today, piece by piece?

Types d'événement

Atelier / Démonstration / Savoir-faire

Thèmes 2023

Patrimoine vivant

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Conditions de participation

Gratuit, Sur inscription

Type de public

Tout public

About the location

Musée national et domaine du château de Pau

Rue du château, 64000 Pau

Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Built in the XIIIth century by the viscounts of Béarn, the castle of Pau is extended in 1370s by legendary Gaston Fébus, count of Foix and viscount of Béarn (1343-1391). In the first half of the XVIth century, Henry d' Albret and her wife, Margaret d' Angoulême, sister of François Ier, give him the decoration(set) Renaissance which saw being born, in 1553, the one who will become Henry IV, " the good king Henry ".
In the XIXth century, Louis-Philippe, then Napoleon III proceed to a complete restoration(catering) and to a refitting(reorganisation) of the royal apartments. Of this time(period), the castle kept(preserved) undamaged its internal decoration(set), of style Troubadour and neo-Renaissance, as well as exceptional all the most prestigious tapestries of Flanderses and of the Gobelins des XVIe, XVIIth century and the XVIII centuries.