The Erechtheion is an Ionic-style temple on the Acropolis in Athens, built between about 420 and 406 BC.
South-west view of the Erechtheion on the Acropolis in Athens
Category: Europe
Fashion and Costume History of Europe.
The costume worn in the late 14th or early 15th century.
History of Costume. The chaperon, cote-hardie, houppelande, liripipe, poulaines. Fashion of the middle ages.
Specimens of wheel-locks, gun-locks of 16th, 17th, and 18th century.
European Hand Firearms of the Sixteenth Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, by Herbert J. Jackson.
Armoury. Pikeman’s suit english, early 17th century.
The illustration shows a typical English pikeman’s corselet of the early seventeenth century, at a period when every infantry regiment consisted of musketeers and pikemen in varying proportions.
Italy. Vallombrosa Abbey and the Camaldolese Order in 1905.
The Abbey of Vallombrosa is located in the village of the same name in the municipality of Reggello, in the province of Florence in the Apennines and diocese of Fiesole,… Read More
Devotions, confessional and church scenes in 19th century Italy.
A female at her devotions. Costume near Florence. In Italy, the young and the old alike frequent the churches.
Mount Parnassus home of the Muses in central Greece.
Montparnasse in Paris is named after Mount Parnassus. Views in Greece. Drawings by Edward Dodwell, 1821. The Grand Tour.
Bouquetières. Flower seller in Florence. Journey through Italy, 1840.
The flower seller making a sales pitch, the city of Florence in the background.
Locals of Pisa in typical costume in front of an orphanage.
Locals of Pisa with English neckerchief and french handkerchief in front of an orphanage.
Types from the distinguished, bourgeois and mercantile world of the 17th c.
Netherlands 17th century. The coach. The hedge labyrinths. Types from the distinguished, bourgeois and mercantile world.
