Because of this class, I am now interested more than ever about the role of servants in 18th century France, but more broadly, underrepresented groups in art history generally. Groups who have been denied a voice – like servants – continue to be lost in a narrative defined by those […]
Right now, Samina and I are each in the midst of individually creating our constructed Tessé period rooms, which include the presence of masters and servants respectively. While the male servant was simply photoshopped out of the painting from which he came, entitled, “The Cellarboy” by the renowned artist Jean-Simeon […]
One of the goals of our website, which we plan to create via the digital platform, WordPress, is to create easy navigation of a 3-D model of the Tesse Room in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s European Sculptures and Decorative Arts Collection for the viewer. We would like for our […]
My contribution to my group’s digital project is to hopefully give viewers a more authentic idea about the daily routines that took place in rooms like the Tesse. Scholarship thus far seems to have explored predominantly the wealthy class and how they spent their time in these types of spaces. […]
Below is the project proposal I submitted: Servants Were There, Too My individual contribution to the Virtual Enlightenment Digital Project will be to focus on the role of servants and enslaved people in domestic spaces, specifically those occupied by and associated with upper class, wealthy families of France during […]