This splendid building was commenced in the year 1629, by the Cardinal de Richelieu, from the designs of Le Mercier.
Paris. Palais Royal. French scenery in 1822.
Category: Europe
Fashions in Europe. European Costume and Cultural History.
Dame de qualite costume of the court of Charles VII 15th century.
Noble lady with superb head-dress, bordered with fleurs-de-lys, is worthy of the court of one of the most gallant of the French princes.
Complete harnesses of soldiers in the Thirty Years’ War 1618 to 1648.
Three complete sets of half-armour from the first half of the 17th century. They show the most essential characteristics of the armour worn
Medieval Garb of German Noble Ladies and a Duke, 13th century.
German Gothic Fashion. Noble ladies in the cotehardie. Prince in the houppelande. On the history of costumes.
The introduction of the vertugale. Costume silhouettes.
Costume silhouettes of the sixteenth century changed rapidly with the introduction of the corset, the basquine, the hoop skirt, or vertugale.
The Fashion of Mi-parti. Clothing of the Middle Ages.
The mi-parti, the wide bag sleeves, like the long jagged or cogged surplices are repeated here in the most varied applications and changes.
Female fashion silhouettes of the Middle Ages. 11th to the 15th Century.
This period from 1300 to 1500 was full of the eccentricities of extreme fashion.
The Sarafan. Russian Court Dress.
The peasant girls, court ladies and women in the villages of northern and central Russia, as well as in the Volga regions of Great Russia, wear the sarafan.
Court Toilets & Ceremonial Robes. France 16th, 17th century.
History of Costume by Auguste Racinet. Costumes of the nobility in the time of Henry IV of France. 16th, 17th century. Court Toilets & Ceremonial Robes.
Southeast view of the Temple of Poseidon at Sounion, Greece.
The ancient Greek temple of Poseidon at Cape Sunnius, built between 444-440 BC, is one of the main monuments of Athens’ Golden Age.