This is great! It looks like it was inspired by the Spanish cap (I found pictures in Hispanic Costume 1480 - 1530 by Anderson. The bust also looks like it had...
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Karen Finnemore
finnemka
Jan 31, 2011 2:01 am
This does help, yes. As I had said, I could not venture to assign this portrait as a courtesan due to colors, without having appropriate resources to back...
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hillaryrose7
Jan 31, 2011 5:11 am
I took a second look, and you're right! The bust's hair and the headdress DO look indented, as if a circlet had been worn around the head. Perhaps a real...
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hillaryrose7
Jan 31, 2011 5:31 am
I think you and Kristi have hit the nail right on the head! Only when I looked a second time did I notice an indentation in the bust's hair and the headdress,...
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Jacki/erica
elspeth205
Jan 31, 2011 2:43 pm
Hope this works are a couple of examples of portraits of the d'este girls Isabella and Beatrice Nope did not work. Okay - I googled Isabella and Beatrice...
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otsisto
alfrdis
Jan 31, 2011 7:50 pm
head bands http://tinyurl.com/4ltcnlq http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Isabella_d%27Este_palazzo_ducale.jpg ...
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Shannon Ward
shannonkrysta
Feb 1, 2011 2:27 pm
The headdress also bears a certain resemblance to the Spanish "cofia com tranzado", about which there us quite a lot of information in Ruth Matilda Anderson's...
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Jacki/erica
elspeth205
Feb 1, 2011 2:44 pm
Otsisto many thanks for having my back on these links. I had forgotten about the one as a donor. When my daughters and I first started SCA, my middle...
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otsisto
alfrdis
Feb 1, 2011 9:22 pm
Any pics? I have been temped to make a striped gown (there are several striped gowns that I have seen that are lovely) but time and energy have not been with...
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hillaryrose7
Feb 2, 2011 3:22 am
You're right! They definitely look related. Here are some Italian examples of "long-tailed-snoods" as well: 1....
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hillaryrose7
Feb 2, 2011 3:58 am
Greetings noble citizens of Italy! I have been looking for larger, clearer pictures of the diagonally-striped dress Beatrice d'Este is shown to have worn. I...
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Ann Catelli
elvestoorder
Feb 2, 2011 4:16 am
The dress in question appears to me to be striped along the grain & not diagonally at all. The chevrons on the skirt's visible side seam is a flared seam...
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Isabella D'Angelo
jubileel_ins...
Feb 2, 2011 9:20 am
Dittoing this. The skirt looks to be made of two trapezoid like pieces for lack of a better way of explaining it. If you cut out two trapezoids with the...
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ivinian
Feb 2, 2011 8:27 pm
The Predis portrait in that last link is a few years older than the Ambrogio, I think, but not much older (my source says 1490 vs. 1493). The tail thingie is a...
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hillaryrose7
Feb 2, 2011 8:45 pm
I'm very, very new to costuming, so I'm having a hard time imagining the construction in my head. Are the side panels of the skirt simply matched up and sewn...
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hillaryrose7
Feb 2, 2011 8:58 pm
Thank you so much for giving me the correct names for the coazzone and trinzale, Vangelista! :) I felt silly calling it a "long-tailed-snood." It would make...
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ivinian
Feb 3, 2011 9:14 pm
Most welcome! The fashion seems to have endured well. In that famous portrait of Eleonora di Toledo, Eleonora wears a very similar net hairnet and shoulder...
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Brad Moore
mamluk
Feb 5, 2011 1:54 am
Has anyone seen a definitive, or for that matter, even a tentative release date for Moda a Firenze 1540-1580: Cosimo I de Medici's Style ? David Brown/Oxbow...
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Bella
bella_lucia_...
Feb 5, 2011 3:17 am
Hi Nicolas, it was supposed to be March, but in a communication from the publisher recently (from whom I will be receiving a copy of the new book for...
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Bella
bella_lucia_...
Feb 5, 2011 3:19 am
Without further ado.... http://realmofvenus.renaissanceitaly.net/yourgarb/showcase.htm Lady Bella Lucia da Verona (Anabella Wake) The Realm of Venus@...
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Brad Moore
mamluk
Feb 5, 2011 4:17 am
Bella, Thank you so much. I look forward to seeing it. I love the first one, and have been on pins and needles for this book for some time.  Brad Moore ...
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Kat
kat_d_b
Feb 6, 2011 1:25 pm
I emailed the David Brown Book co. a few weeks ago, as I have it on preorder. They said 'sometime in Summer this year, although the exact date is not known'. ...
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Jacki/erica
elspeth205
Feb 6, 2011 3:47 pm
http://realmofvenus.renaissanceitaly.net/wardrobe/ferrara/LorenzoCostaBentivoglio1-1488.jpg I really like the middle daughter's clothing. My question is - is...
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Ismerelda Della Scala
ccarbiener
Feb 6, 2011 9:30 pm
Hello everyone! I just started learning about the Italian Renaissance and I had a question. Are there any colors that women in Venice AVOIDED wearing? I am...
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Amanda
dakea
Feb 6, 2011 9:56 pm
Perhaps some of you may have known her, This last Friday to Saturday my laurel Baroness Luciana di Ridolphi has passed away. She was my greatest inspiration...
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hillaryrose7
Feb 6, 2011 10:05 pm
Greetings Ismerelda! (I love your name by the way!) You are in luck because they certainly wore pink during the Italian Renaissance! Even men wore pink back...
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Jolie
pixieandfair...
Feb 6, 2011 10:10 pm
Your Excellency, I wish that I had words to offer you comfort. I am very for your great loss! My sincere best regards, Jolie' Sent from my iPad ... [Non-text...
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Bella
bella_lucia_...
Feb 6, 2011 10:11 pm
Thank you Elisabetta. :-) Just one small correction if I may...the list is of words for colours in the sixteenth century, but not specifically fabric colours....
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Karen Finnemore
finnemka
Feb 6, 2011 10:12 pm
I am so very sorry to hear of your loss. May you find comfort during this time of heart break... -Lady Renata l'rouge ... -- The very existence of...
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Bella
bella_lucia_...
Feb 6, 2011 10:13 pm
My deepest condolences on your loss. Bella [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
