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
This costume belongs to the close of the fifteenth century, and is one of the most elegant of this epoch.
A GERMAN NOBLE COSTUME.
Renaissance Helmet of Alfonso Piccololomini di Firenze.
Marchand français au XVI siècle. Costumes civils et militaires des Français à travers les siècles
Renee de Rieux, demoiselle de Châteauneuf called La Belle Châteauneuf, was a mistress of the French King Henry III.
Fra ‘Jean de la Valette, Jean Parisot de La Valette, (1494 – 1568) was the 49th Grand Master of the Military Order of Malta
