“Exotique”. Modèle Lewis, porte Mme. Franca-Florio de Palerme.
Exotique. Modèle Lewis. Franca-Florio de Palerme.
Category: Fashion History
The Alba. Liturgical costume. 13th century. Bavarian National Museum.
Alba, Liturgical, costume, middle ages,
Dalmatica 13th century. Liturgical garment. Halberstadt Cathedral Museum.
Dalmatic, a long robe with wide but short sleeves that was worn especially in the Middle Ages in Dalmatia instead of the Roman Tunica.
Albe 13th century. Baptismal garment. German Liturgical costume.
Traditionally worn by Catholic priests as liturgical undergarment under the chasuble.
Louise-Diane of Orleans, known as Mademoiselle de Chartres.
Louise-Diane of Orleans, known as “Mademoiselle de Chartres”, Princess of Conti (1732).
Dalmatica of German Emperor Henry II. Coronation mantle.
Henry II was married to Cunegonde of Luxembourg. They had no children, Henry II. was thus the last emperor of the dynasty of the Ottos. Pope Eugene III. spoke him in 1146 sacred
Medieval Persian Tunic. Leonata. 12th Century.
Persian tunic. 12th c.
India Spearmen. Soldier with spear, dagger and shield.
Medieval military dress from India. Indian spearmen 15th c. Artist: Alois Greil.
Peasant from Upper Austria 17th century.
Peasant from Upper Austria 17th century. Upper Austrian farmer from the time of the Austrian Peasant War in 1626. He is armed with a sort of a mace and pistol. The revolt… Read More
French painter Marie Louise Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun 1755 -1842.
Madame Lebrun was a French painter of classicism. She is said to have been one of the most beautiful women of Paris at a young age.