The “Pembroke” tapestry at V&A Museum, contains the armorial bearings of Sir William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke in the style known as “grotesque”.
The “Pembroke” tapestry. Tapestry weaving in England. Tudor 16th c.
Category: 16th Century
Costumes and Fashion in 16th century. Renaissance, Spanish Fashion, Tudor.
Soldiers from Lombardy and Venice in the 16th century.
Italian soldiers in Mi-Parti fashion. Renaissance clothing from Venice and Lombardy at the beginning of the 16th century.
Portraits of five of the best known Mughal emperors of Delhi.
Although the portraits represent the most illustrious occupants of the Imperial throne, they have not been chosen mainly for that reason, but because in every case the person represented is wearing interesting examples of jewellery.
Italian embroidered silk hangings. The treasury of ornamental art. 16th c.
THIS engraving shows the upper and lower portions of a vertical panel, supposed to have originally formed a pilaster or border to a piece of tapestry.
Queen Elisabeth’s Buskins.
QUEEN ELIZABETH’S BUSKINS. Tudor era Fashion, New Edition: The language of clothes (Smithsonian).
Habit of a Woman of Africa in 1581
Habit of a Woman of Africa in 1581 from Habitus Variarum. Africaine Fashion, New Edition: The language of clothes (Smithsonian).
Life in a medieval castle. The court society of the castle gathers for a ride.
Miniature of the Breviary of Cardinal Grimani, attributed to Marciana Biblioteca of S.Marc, Venice. Fifteenth century.
Renaissance Helmet of Alfonso Piccololomini di Firenze.
Renaissance Helmet of Alfonso Piccololomini di Firenze. Fashion, New Edition: The language of clothes (Smithsonian).
French merchant in the sixteenth century.
French merchant in the sixteenth century. Fashion, New Edition: The language of clothes (Smithsonian).
Renee de Rieux, demoiselle de Châteauneuf.
Renee de Rieux, demoiselle de Châteauneuf. Fashion, New Edition: The language of clothes (Smithsonian).
