With England and France mired in the Hundred Years War and its aftermath and then the English Wars of the Roses through most of the 15th century, European fashion north of the Alps was dominated by the glittering court of the Duchy of Burgundy, especially under the fashion-conscious power-broker Philip the Good (ruled 1419–1469). Having added Holland and …

2019年11月23日 · I sabeau de Bavière (1370-1435) (Fig. 1) had been Queen of France for fifteen years and well established as a leader of fashion when the fifteenth century began. A Bavarian princess married to King Charles VI in 1385, when both were young teenagers, she wielded considerable power after 1392, when the King suffered the first of his frequent attacks of …

The young Richard II of England, kneeling, wears a houppelande of silk brocade with the badge of his livery.St John the Baptist wears his iconographical clothes, but the sainted English kings Edward the Confessor and Edmund the Martyr are in contemporary royal dress. The Wilton Diptych 1395–99. Wool was the most important material for clothing, due to its numerous …

2020年1月5日 · O ur best source for the fashions of this decade is Les Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry, a beautiful illuminated prayer book commissioned by Jean, Duke of Berry, the uncle of King Charles VI of France. Most of the book’s miniature paintings are the work of the Dutch Limbourg brothers (Paul, Jean and Herman), and are dated between 1410 and 1412 (Van …

2021年6月24日 · The Legend of the True Cross frescoes represent Italian fashion of the 1450s at its most avant-garde, with multiple references to ancient costume. The panel painting known as the Adimari Cassone (Fig. 6) represents it at its most luxurious. A cassone was a wooden marriage chest, usually with carved and painted decoration, used by a bride to store what she …

But then people began to modify their dress to get around the laws, and fashion really begins. Hairstyles and headwear began to get more complex in the 14th century. Women could wear a wimple or head veil, or for outdoors activities a hood or hat similar to what a man might wear. Hair was parted in the center and styled into two long braids ...

2016年11月26日 · The clothing seem to be simpler version of what-ever was the fashion at the time. Probably produced in wool rather than silk and brocade. More likely than not there would be pretty details of lace and needle work. The Dancing Peasants, late 1400’s The Dancing Peasants, late 1400’s. I want to take a closer look at The Dancing Peasants.

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The fur trade was a major contributor to both work-a-day and high fashion in medieval culture. ... (Public Domain) Solomon receiving the queen of Sheba from a Bible Historiale, BNF MS fr-159 fol. 289v, Paris, 1400. The artist depicts the individual fur skins in the king’s sumptuous gris lining. The queen’s houppelande is lined in ...

2019年3月2日 · The clothing of the 1400’s had an understated elegance. In the early 1400’s women wore a gown called a “houppelande”. It could be slipped over the head. Often the neckline was v-shaped and the sleeves were tubular. The neckline became broad showing off the undergarment. By the 1470’s the bodice became more closely fitting requiring the…