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Chronological, geographical, and thematic exploration of the history of art from around the world, illustrated by the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collections
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Renaissance/ Early Modern Clothing and Textiles
16th century, silk and gold metallic thread, brocaded velvet, Italian or Spanish
c. 1500-03, oil on wood panel, Marriage at Cana, Gerard David, Bruges, Netherlands
1635-45, silk satin with applied braid, lined in linen, man's cloak, England
1469-70, paint on plaster wall, Francesco del Cossa, Palazzo Schifenoia, Ferrara, Italy
Late 17th century, wool and metallic thread, woman's mantua or gown, England
Late 17th century, oil on canvas, Mrs. Elizabeth Freake and daughter, United States
c. 1462-69, drawings and ink on parchment, Barthelemy d'Eyck, France
1475, steel, helmet, Germany
c. 1550, tempera and gold on parchment, Simon Bening, Bruges, Belgium
1630-39, linen with silk embroidery, man's shirt, England or Italy
Late 16th century, leather and silk, England
c. 1580, paint on canvas, courtiers dancing, France
Overview of Renaissance/Early Modern Clothing
Medieval Dress and Fashion
GT575 .S363 2007
Early Tudor Costume, 1485-1558
GT734 .L381
Survey of Historic Costume
GT580 .T672
Historical Costumes of England 1066-1968
GT730 .B68 1997
The Visual History of Costume
GT511 .R53 1997
The Clothing of the Renaissance World
GT509 .V42 2008
The History of Costume
GT510 .P35
Resources Renaissance/Early Modern Clothing Research
1400-1600 I want an overview
1600-1700 I want an overview
1400-1600: Northern Europe in depth
1400-1600: Italy & Spain in depth
1400-1700 How were clothes made?
Dress in the Middle Ages
by
Françoise Piponnier; Perrine Mane; Caroline Beamish (Translator)
Handbook of English Costume in the Sixteenth Century
by
Cecil Willett Cunnington; Phillis E. Cunnington
Handbook of English Mediaeval Costume
by
Cunnington, C. Willett
Early Tudor Costume, 1485-1558
by
James Laver
Medieval Dress and Fashion
by
Margaret Scott
Vecellio's Renaissance Costume Book
by
Cesare Vecellio
The Visual History of Costume
by
Aileen Ribeiro; Valerie Cumming
A Visual History of Costume: The 14th and 15th centuries
by
Scott, Margaret
A Visual History of Costume: The 16th century
by
Ashelford, Jane
Gallery of Late Seventeenth-Century Costume
by
Caspar Luyken
Clothes of the Common People in Elizabethan and Early Stuart England 1558-1660
by
Peachey, Stuart
Costumes of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century
by
Phillis Cunnington
The Culture of Clothing
by
Daniel Roche; Jean Birrell (Translator)
Fashion and Fiction
by
Aileen Ribeiro
Fashion Prints in the Age of Louis XIV
by
Kathryn Norberg (Editor); Sandra Rosenbaum (Editor)
The Force of Fashion in Politics and Society
by
Beverly Lemire (Editor)
Four Hundred Years of Fashion
by
Natalie Rothstein
Glasgow Museums
by
Glasgow Museums Staff (Contribution by); Rebecca Quinton; Unicorn Press Staff
In Fine Style
by
Anna Reynolds
Modelejon (Lions of Fashion): Manligt mode, 1500-tal, 1600-tal, 1700-tal
by
Lena Rangstrom, Goran Schildt, Nils Drejholt et al.
A Visual History of Costume
by
Valerie Cumming
The Clothing of the Common Sort, 1570-1700
by
Margaret Spufford; Susan Mee
Dress at the Court of King Henry VIII
by
Maria Hayward
Dressing the Elite
by
Susan Vincent
Dressing Up
by
Ulinka Rublack
Dress in the Age of Elizabeth I
by
Jane Ashelford
Fashioning the Early Modern
by
Evelyn Welch (Editor)
The First Book of Fashion
by
Ulinka Rublack (Editor); ed. by Maria Hayward and Jenny Tiramani
The King's Servants: Men's Dress at the Accession of Henry VIII
by
Johnson, Carolyn, ed. by Jane Malcolm-Davies
Late Gothic Europe, 1400-1500
by
Scott, Margaret
Modelejon (Lions of Fashion): Manligt mode, 1500-tal, 1600-tal, 1700-tal
by
Lena Rangstrom, Goran Schildt, Nils Drejholt et al.
Ornamentalism
by
Bella Mirabella (Editor)
The Performance of Self
by
Susan Crane
The Queen's Servants: Gentlewomen's Dress at the Accession of Henry VIII
by
Johnson, Caroline, ed. by Jane Malcolm-Davies and Ninya Mikhaila
Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlock'd
by
Janet Arnold
Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory
by
Ann Rosalind Jones; Peter Stallybrass
A Well-Fashioned Image
by
Elissa B. Weaver; Elizabeth Rodini
The Modern Maker
by
Mathew Gnagy
The Clothing of the Renaissance World
by
Margaret F. Rosenthal; Ann Rosalind Jones
Dressing Renaissance Florence
by
Carole Collier Frick
Dress in Italian Painting, 1460-1500
by
Birbari, Elizabeth
The Dress of the Venetians
by
Stella M. Newton
Fashion, Devotion and Contemplation
by
Marika Leino
Fashion and Masculinity in Renaissance Florence
by
Elizabeth Currie
Gilding the Market
by
Susan Mosher Stuard
Hispanic Costume 1480-1530
by
Ruth M. Anderson
Moda a Firenze 1540-1580
by
Roberta Orsi-Landini
Moda a Firenze, 1540-1580
by
Roberta Orsi Landini; Bruna Niccoli
Ornamentalism
by
Bella Mirabella (Editor)
Renaissance Dress in Italy 1400-1500
by
Jacqueline Herald
A Tailor's Book: from the Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Venice
by
ed. Alessandra Mottolo Molfino
Storia del Costume in Italia (5 volumes)
by
Rosita Levi Pisetzky
17th-Century Men's Dress Patterns, 1600 - 1630
by
Susan North; Jenny Tiramani; Melanie Braun; Luca Costigliolo; Claire Thornton
Corsets and Crinolines
by
Norah Waugh, ed. byJudith Dolan
The Cut of Men's Clothes, 1600-1900
by
Norah Waugh
The Cut of Women's Clothes
by
Norah Waugh
Historical Fashion in Detail: the 17th and 18th centuries
by
Avril Hart; Susan North; Richard Davis (Illustrator)
In Modest Apparel: clothing the pilgrims of Plimoth Plantation
by
Haggerty, Kristen L.
Moda a Firenze 1540-1580
by
Roberta Orsi Landini; Bruna Niccoli
Moda a Firenze 1540-1580
by
Roberta Orsi-Landini
The Modern Maker: Vol. 1
by
Mathew Gnagy
The Modern Maker: Vol. 2 Pattern Manual 1580-1640
by
Mathew Allan Gnagy
Patterns of Fashion, v.3: 1560-1620
by
Janet Arnold
Patterns of Fashion, 4: 1540-1660
by
Janet Arnold; Santina M. Levey (Assisted by)
Patterns of Fashion, 5: 1595-1795
by
Janet Arnold, Jenny Tiramani, et al.
Seventeenth-Century Women's Dress Patterns
by
Jenny Tiramani (Editor); Susan North (Editor)
A Tailor's Book: from the Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Venice
by
Alessandra Mottola Molfino
Tailor's Pattern Book, 1589
by
Juan de Alcega; J. L. Nevinson
The Tudor Child
by
Jane Huggett; Ninya Mikhaila; ed. by Jane Malcolm-Davies
The Tudor Tailor
by
Jane Malcolm-Davies; Ninya Mikhaila; Michael Perry (Illustrator)
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