Category: Fashion History

The Mignons of Henri III. of France put on make-up and powder, wore earrings, lace and tinsel.

Catherine de Médici. The kings mother.

Catherine de Médici, Queen of France. Portraiture at the court of the Valois

Hampton Court Palace is a castle in far south-west London on the left bank of the River Thames

Portrait of a woman as Astrée, probably Mary Josephine Drummond, Condesa de Castelblanco, by Largillierre.

Edward of Woodstock, named after his birthplace, Prince of Wales and Aquitaine, known as The Black Prince.

Robin Hood was born at Locksley, in the county of Nottingham, in the reign of King Henry II, and about the year of Christ 1160.

A Love-scene typical of the art of Louis the Fifteenth’s day.

Jewellery pendant of Charles V. This jewel exhibits a mass of precious stones. Renaissance craftsmanship

1st wife of John Singleton Copley, Baron Lyndhurst, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain.

The celebrated bridge of the Rialto was built under the government of the Doge Pascal Cicogna