Costumes of Venice. The Venetian gondoliers. Nicolotti and Castellani. Dwarves and jesters, pages and messengers of love. Italian Medieval and Renaissance fashion history.
Costumes of Venice. The Venetian gondoliers. Dwarves and jesters.
Category: Europe
Fashions in Europe. European Costume and Cultural History.
The Illuminati and their era. Imitations of Illuminism. Freemasonry.
The Illuminati and the Freemasons. Freemasonry and the French Revolution. The Order of Perfectibilists.
German Renaissance fashion of a noblewoman with a red beret.
German Renaissance fashion of a noblewoman from the beginning of the 16th century, with a red beret, long dress with train over a white underdress of camelot and a partlet of red silk with black velvet.
Costumes Of State, 1485-1510. French Clothing & Dress. Headdresses.
Europe. XV. XVI. century. Festive costume. Ladies’ and men’s overcoats. Men’s and women’s hairstyle. End of 15th, beginning of the 16th century.
Civil dress of the late 15th century. France middle ages.
Civil dress in Europe at the end of the late 15th century. Female and male hairstyles and headgear.
Wedding of the Boccaccio degli Adimari. Italian Renaissance.
Fashion of the Italian Renaissance. Marriage of Boccaccio Adirmari with Lisa Ricasoli in 1420. Groom with the chaperon. Interior of the cell of the Dominican Savonarol
Anne of Cleves, fourth wife of the English King Henry VIII.
Anne of Cleves (1515 – 1557) was the fourth wife of the English King Henry VIII.
Russia. Specimens of Headdress of the women of the people.
These bonnet and cap-like headpieces all originate from Old Russia and are peculiar to the Russian slaves. The specimens shown here come from the governorates of Novgorod, Kaluga, Tver and Kursk.
Scandinavian costumes from Sweden, Iceland and Lapland.
Young girl from Reykjavik, Island in festive dress. Farmer and girl in Sunday state from Dalarna County, Sweden. Young woman in summer costume from the Swedish province of Bleking. Family in Sunday state from the Parish of Leksand, Dalarna, Sweden. Winter coat of sheepskin from the Swedish Sudermanland.
Opus Anglicanum. The Syon Cope. Ecclesiastical needlework.
The Syon Cope.
A fine example of the ecclesiastical needlework for which England was noted in the thirteenth century; presented to the Duke of Northumberland by refugee nuns from Portugal, to whose convent it belonged, and whom he sheltered at Syon House during the Continental troubles of the early nineteenth century.