Fashion and costume illustrations of the Renaissance. Restored from various, rare sources. Renaissance (French for “rebirth”) describes a European cultural epoch mainly 15th and 16th century. The end of the era takes place in the early 17th century in Italy by the newly prominent baroque style.
The early history of the Herbert family. William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke. Full length, standing, in black-slashed doublet and trunk hose, with short cloak. Tudor era. Wilton House Pictures.
Iconographie générale et méthodique du costume du IVe au XIXe siècle.
Italian soldiers in Mi-Parti fashion. Renaissance clothing from Venice and Lombardy at the beginning of the 16th century.
Head-dress, Clasp for a Cloak, Rosary and Alms-box, from a painting by Van Eyck
AN ENGLISH LADY. Late medieval, Renaissance, Tudor, Burgundy
A GERMAN NOBLE COSTUME.
Renaissance Helmet of Alfonso Piccololomini di Firenze.
French merchant in the sixteenth century.
Renee de Rieux, demoiselle de Châteauneuf.
Dame Romaine (Nouvelle mairee 1581) Renaissance style in the 16th century.
