The Frick Museum, located in a historic mansion, reopened following a significant renovation that enhances visitor access and natural light. Currently, it features the exhibition 'Gainsborough: The Fashion of Portraiture,' highlighting the work of Thomas Gainsborough. Additionally, a new show titled 'Ruffles & Ribbons: Fashion Plates from the Time of Marie Antoinette' showcases twenty-four hand-engraved fashion plates from the late 1700s, offering a glimpse into early fashion representation. Visitors can enjoy the serene courtyard and nearby culinary delights.
"The museum, which is housed inside an ornate Upper East Side mansion that once belonged to the Gilded Age industrialist Henry Clay Frick, reopened last April after a two-hundred-and-twenty-million-dollar renovation effort, a four-year project that greatly expands access to the space and lets in fresh air and shafts of light."
"The Frick débuts another new show, 'Ruffles & Ribbons: Fashion Plates from the Time of Marie Antoinette,' a collection of twenty-four fashion plates, hand-engraved, from the late seventeen-hundreds, pulled from the museum's Art Research Library."
"Such engravings, which depict the wackily maximalist style à la mode, including oodles of feathers and furbelows, were, in essence, early precursors to modern fashion magazines."
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