Roman Costumes. Women of Frascati by Bartolomeo Pinelli. Frascati is a municipality in the province of Rome in the Italian region Lazio and is located in the Alban Hills and is one… Read More
Tag: Traditional Italy national costumes
Italian costumes from different eras and parts of Italy.
Dancing the Tarantella by Bartolomeo Pinelli
Tarantella by Bartolomeo Pinelli
Sbirri of the Kingdom of Naples 19th century.
Sbirri of the Kingdom of Naples. SBIRRI, from Ital. sbirri, an archer, a name given to a class of armed police in Italy, resembling the French gens’d’armes in every thing… Read More
Woman of Naples. Giovane ragazza napoletana. Costume italiano.
Young Neapolitan Girl. Italian 18th c. dress. Giovane ragazza napoletana. Costume italiano del XVIII secolo.
Italian Girl costume in the 19th Century.
Italian Girl in traditional clothing during the 19th Century. Costumes historiques de ville ou de théatre et travestissements. Author: Achille Devéria and José Domínguez Bécquer. Publisher Paris: Goupil et Vibert… Read More
A Pilgrim going to Loretto. Shrine of the Holy House.
The shrines of Loreto and St. James of Gallicia cannot, like that of St. Thomas of Becket at Canterbury in former times, show the stones worn away by the devout kisses of the modern far-wandering penitent.
A female of Vercelli. Italy Piedmontese folk costume in 1821.
A female of Vercelli, Piedmontese. This one of the most peculiar head-dresses belonging to the lower orders in Italy.
Donna di Torino. Female of Turin. Italy folk costume in 1821.
AT Turin the dress of the females is very remarkable. The elaborate and various forms of their caps are singular and picturesque.