On Thursday 16 December at 10.30 the exhibition “Non solo moda. The history of women’s clothing through the centuries “, a permanent educational exhibition curated by Flavio Enei and Teresa Venuto Riccardi with the support of the Association ODV Archaeological Group of the Cerite Territory. In addition to the curators, the Mayor of Santa Marinella Pietro Tidei, the regional councilor Marietta Tidei, the LAZIOcrea president, Luigi Pomponio, the delegate to the Castle Paola Fratarcangeli, the Councilor for productive activities Emanuele Minghella and the president of Gatc, Paolo Marini took part. . The new “Museum of the Castle of Santa Severa” is enriched with a new exhibition itinerary which, through faithful philological reconstructions, illustrates the evolution of women’s clothing over several centuries.

Over 30 costumes tell the art of dressing women between the Middle Ages and the modern era, from traditional Byzantine dresses to those of the Renaissance, the Baroque, the Enlightenment and the present day.

A permanent exhibition that, in parallel with the story of the castle’s history and archeology, room by room, brings the visitor closer to the transformations of women’s clothing, aesthetic choices, techniques and colors of the ancient and modern world.

The garments worn by women testify to the culture and status of the female figure over time. A journey that accompanies the visitor through the centuries between the perfect geometric Renaissance vision, the splendor of the Baroque era, the novelties arising from the French Revolution, up to the freedom of fashion forms of the 1920s.

The exhibition arrives, therefore, in our days characterized by a fashion that everyone can enjoy by purchasing the most diverse clothes that the consumer society makes available to satisfy specific personalities.

Clothing has always provided security and relates our being with the way we appear according to the values ​​and ideals that characterize us and that bind us to our role in society: the dress is the tool with which women can reinvent themselves and affect the way they are seen from the outside.

An interesting and evocative path in the new Castle Museum made possible by the long research and tailoring work carried out for years by Teresa Venuto Riccardi who made her reconstructions but also some of her extraordinary new creations, inspired by monuments, available to the Civic Museum Complex and the beauties of the territory of Santa Marinella.