The Italian fashion in France. The collars of the dresses. Metal and wooden corsets. Display of fine lingerie. The passementerie works and laces. The rules of etiquette. The expansion of ruffs.
Art in England during the Elizabethan and Stuart Periods. Textiles and Embroidery by Aymer Vallance.
Wilton House is a manor house, famous for its landscaped park and magnificent interiors.
The early history of the Herbert family. William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke. Full length, standing, in black-slashed doublet and trunk hose, with short cloak. Tudor era. Wilton House Pictures.
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”.
QUEEN ELIZABETH’S BUSKINS. Tudor era
This costume belongs to the close of the fifteenth century, and is one of the most elegant of this epoch.
Sir Walter Raleigh was one of the most brilliant and one of the most ambitious men at the court of Queen Elizabeth.
Riccio was an Italian lute player and composer, as well as private secretary and favorite of Mary Stuart.
Sir Thomas More and his daughter Margaret Margaret Roper (1505-1544), born More, was an English translator and the eldest daughter of the English humanist Sir Thomas More. She was considered… Read More
