The Bagpipe (Cornemuse and Musette) and the hurdy- gurdy (Vielle) were, after the thirteenth century, banished to the lower orders, to the blind and to the wandering mendicant class.
Bagpipes. The Musette, Zampogna, Hurdy-gurdy and Cornemuse.
Category: Middle Ages
Middle Ages costumes and fashion. Period between 700 to 15th century. Style of Byzantine, Carolingian, Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance.
Musical instruments of the Middle Ages from the 12th to the 16th century.
Medieval musical instruments. Stringed instruments. The harp, the psaltery, the rota, the lute, the mandora, the guitar, the zither and the citole.
The Doge of Venice from the 9th to the 16th century. Officials.
The Doge of Venice from the 9th to the 16th century. State regalia. Officials. Jewish merchant of the 14th century.
Glass painting in grisaille technique in the Middle Ages.
Glass painting of church windows with grisaille window roses. Painting on glass attained its highest excellence in the thirteenth century.
Medieval civil and war costumes of Italy, France and England. The Litter.
The close costume of the 14th century. Knights and squires habit of dressing. The footwear. The main piece of clothing for women at that time was the cotte hardie, a close-fitting, short-sleeved skirt, which made the body shapes stand out plastically.
Civil and military fashion & costume in Italy. 14th to 16th c.
Venetian, Florentine and Milanese fashion. In the 15th century luxury reached its highest level especially among the Venetian nobility.
Costumes of Venice. The Venetian gondoliers. Dwarves and jesters.
Costumes of Venice. The Venetian gondoliers. Nicolotti and Castellani. Dwarves and jesters, pages and messengers of love. Italian Medieval and Renaissance fashion history.
Costumes Of State, 1485-1510. French Clothing & Dress. Headdresses.
Europe. XV. XVI. century. Festive costume. Ladies’ and men’s overcoats. Men’s and women’s hairstyle. End of 15th, beginning of the 16th century.
Civil dress of the late 15th century. France middle ages.
Civil dress in Europe at the end of the late 15th century. Female and male hairstyles and headgear.
Opus Anglicanum. The Syon Cope. Ecclesiastical needlework.
The Syon Cope.
A fine example of the ecclesiastical needlework for which England was noted in the thirteenth century; presented to the Duke of Northumberland by refugee nuns from Portugal, to whose convent it belonged, and whom he sheltered at Syon House during the Continental troubles of the early nineteenth century.
