In the surroundings of Rome the picturesque costume of the contadini (farmers) has almost disappeared. Only occasionally do you see entire families of country dwellers in national costumes on the streets.
Category: Italy
Venetian seigneurs. Nobles of France and Italy. 16th c.
Iconographie générale et méthodique du costume du IVe au XIXe siècle.
Soldiers from Lombardy and Venice in the 16th century.
Italian soldiers in Mi-Parti fashion. Renaissance clothing from Venice and Lombardy at the beginning of the 16th century.
The Venetian gondola and gondolier in the 15th century.
Costumes historiques des XIIIe, XIVe et XVe siècles. Gondole Vénitienne. The Venetian gondola and gondolier in the 15th century.
Italian embroidered silk hangings. The treasury of ornamental art. 16th c.
THIS engraving shows the upper and lower portions of a vertical panel, supposed to have originally formed a pilaster or border to a piece of tapestry.
Terra di Lavoro. Two woolen carpets. Italy 18th c.
Two woolen carpets of the “Terra di Lavoro”
Abruzzi. Italian peasant rugs.
Heavy woolen blanket. Abruzzi, Italy ca. 1770
Roman Pope in chamber clothes 18th c.
Roman Pope in Chamber Clothes
Pope Pius VI. from 1775 to 1799. Ecclesiastical costume.
Pius VI. P. M.
13th century duchess costume. Middle ages.
The picture is one of the most precious ornaments of the Academy of Fine Arts at Pisa.