Portraiture at the court of the Valois
Catherine de Médici. The kings mother.
Category: 1550
Costumes and Fashion in 1550, 16th century. Late medieval dresses.
Frescoes and Arabesques of Raphael – Loggie of The Vatican.
Renaissance 16th Century. Frescoes and Arabesques of Raphael. Loggie of The Vatican. By Polychromatic ornament by Auguste Racinet.
The Vatican. St Damaso with the loggias of Bramante and Raphael.
The beautiful Loggias, or open corridors, rise in three stories one above the other, each exhibiting towards the East, towards the North, and towards the West.
Transitional Female costume. Elizabethan fashion 1550 to 1620.
Transitional Female costume between the Elizabethan and Charles I modes. Elizabethan fashion 1550 to 1620.
An Elizabethan man’s outfit. Woman wearing a Spanish farthingale.
The man and woman shown here are wearing typical ensembles of the Elizabethan era. The man is somewhat of a dandy. The woman is wearing a Spanish farthingale.
Feminine Elizabethan ensemble of the 16th c. England Tudor era.
The woman shown here might very well be the Queen herself.
Typical and splendid examples of Elizabethan clothing.
The Elizabethan era is probably regarded by many as the most dramatic and colorful period in the history of western dress.
Elizabethan peasant costume scene. Woman with children 1550-1620.
England Tudor. Elizabethan peasant costumes 1550-1620.
England Tudor. The peasants’ dresses during the reign of Henry VIII.
England Tudor. Peasant clothing from 1500 to 1550, during the reign of Henry VIII. Renaissance 16th century. History of costume.
Italian fashion. Female costumes, Hairstyles and Headgear. 16th century.
Italy 16th century. Female costumes, Hairstyles and Headgear at the time of the Renaissance. Italian fashion of the 16th century.