The Doge’s Palace in Venice was the seat of the Doge and the governing and judicial organs of the Republic of Venice from the 9th century onwards.
The Ducal Palace at Venice. The Palace of the Doges.
Category: Europe
Fashions in Europe. European Costume and Cultural History.
Russian Enamel, Majolica, Paintings on Walls and Ceilings.
In Russia we find enamel ornaments on gold, silver and copper still as widely distributed
Byzantine dalmatica. Albanian embroidery. 12th century.
Chasuble. Liturgical vestment. Albanian embroidery on a twelfth-century Byzantine dalmatica.
The ancient Greek city of Posidonia or Paestum in Magna Graecia.
Percy Bysshe Shelley in Italy. Temple of Neptune at Paestum. Letter from Naples. The Year 1818.
A Mirror Case of the 14th century. The Assault of the Castle of Love.
A mediaeval mirror case. The subject is a favorite one with mediaeval artists, and is known as “The Assault of the Castle of Love.”
An embroidered mantle with a cape of very fine point d’Alençon.
A lace worked dress, in circular shape, furnished with a lace cape reaching to the top of the embroidery, of very fine point d’Alençon.
Ebony cabinet in the style of Louis Seize. Victorian period.
Ebony cabinet in the style of Louis Seize. Prize medal for great excellence of design and workmanship in decorative furniture 1862.
Women’s costumes from the Swiss cantons at the end of the 19th century.
Women’s costumes from the Swiss cantons, Unterwalden, Sankt Gallen, Bern, Valais, Zurich, Zug, Lucerne and Basel.
Russian Women’s, Boyars, Cossacks and Nobility costumes.
Russia 16th and 19th century. Historical persons and folk costumes.
Switzerland. Female costumes from Berne, Appenzell, Fribourg and others.
Traditional female Swiss costume fashion from the cantons of Bern, Appenzell, Fribourg, Uri, Lucerne, Schwyz and Unterwalden.