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The "bowl" haircut with the back of the neck shaved was popular in mid-15th century. Hose or chausses worn with braies and tied to a belt, 1440. Back view of a knee-length Italian cioppa or houppelande of figured silk. One sleeve is turned back to the shoulder to reveal the lining and the doublet sleeve beneath.
The history of Italian fashion is a chronological record of the events and people that impacted and evolved Italian fashion into what it is today. From the Middle Ages, Italian fashion has been popular internationally, with cities in Italy producing textiles like velvet, silk, and wool. During the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Italian fashion ...
It represents a girl in her early teens, depicted in profile, the usual way in which Italian artists of the 15th century portraited women. The girl's dress and hairstyle indicate that she was a member of the Court of Milan during the 1490s. [1] If it truly is a Renaissance work, it would have been executed in the 1490s according to Kemp and ...
Isabella d'Este (19 May 1474 – 13 February 1539) was the Marchioness of Mantua and one of the leading women of the Italian Renaissance as a major cultural and political figure. She was a patron of the arts as well as a leader of fashion and her innovative style of dressing was emulated by many women. The poet Ariosto labeled her as the ...
Diana Scultori Mantuana (1547-1612) – engraver, daughter of the sculptor and engraver Giovanni Battista Ghisi. One of the first female engravers. Mariangiola Criscuolo (c.1548–1630) – painter, daughter of painter Giovanni Filippo Criscuolo. Cecilia Brusasorzi (1549 – 1593) – painter, daughter of painter Domenico Brusasorzi.
Bologna. Died. 1530. Bologna. Resting place. Della Morte Hospital. Nationality. Italian. Properzia de' Rossi (c. 1490 – 1530) was a ground-breaking female Italian Renaissance sculptor and one of only four women to receive a biography in Vasari 's Lives of the Artists.[1]
The Italian Catherine de' Medici, as Queen of France. Her fashions were the main trendsetters of courts at the time. Fashion in Italy started to become the most fashionable in Europe since the 11th century, and powerful cities of the time, such as Venice, Milan, Florence, Naples, Vicenza and Rome began to produce robes, jewelry, textiles, shoes, fabrics, ornaments and elaborate dresses. [8]
Fashion in the period 1500–1550 in Europe is marked by very thick, big and voluminous clothing worn in an abundance of layers (one reaction to the cooling temperatures of the Little Ice Age, especially in Northern Europe and the British Isles). Contrasting fabrics, slashes, embroidery, applied trims, and other forms of surface ornamentation ...