The Clothing of the Renaissance World
Title | The Clothing of the Renaissance World PDF eBook |
Author | Cesare Vecellio |
Publisher | |
Pages | 600 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Design |
ISBN | 9780500514269 |
A tour de force of scholarship and book production: an essential reference for anyone interested in costume history, Renaissance studies, theater, and ethnography.
Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory
Title | Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory PDF eBook |
Author | Ann Rosalind Jones |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Design |
ISBN | 9780521786638 |
This 2001 interpretation of literature and arts reveals how clothing and costume were critical to Renaissance culture.
The First Book of Fashion
Title | The First Book of Fashion PDF eBook |
Author | Ulinka Rublack |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 421 |
Release | 2021-02-11 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1474249906 |
This captivating book reproduces arguably the most extraordinary primary source documents in fashion history. Providing a revealing window onto the Renaissance, they chronicle how style-conscious accountant Matthäus Schwarz and his son Veit Konrad experienced life through clothes, and climbed the social ladder through fastidious management of self-image. These bourgeois dandies' agenda resonates as powerfully today as it did in the sixteenth century: one has to dress to impress, and dress to impress they did. The Schwarzes recorded their sartorial triumphs as well as failures in life in a series of portraits by illuminists over 60 years, which have been comprehensively reproduced in full color for the first time. These exquisite illustrations are accompanied by the Schwarzes' fashion-focussed yet at times deeply personal captions, which render the pair the world's first fashion bloggers and pioneers of everyday portraiture. The First Book of Fashion demonstrates how dress – seemingly both ephemeral and trivial – is a potent tool in the right hands. Beyond this, it colorfully recaptures the experience of Renaissance life and reveals the importance of clothing to the aesthetics and every day culture of the period. Historians Ulinka Rublack's and Maria Hayward's insightful commentaries create an unparalleled portrait of sixteenth-century dress that is both strikingly modern and thorough in its description of a true Renaissance fashionista's wardrobe. This first English translation also includes a bespoke pattern by TONY award-winning costume designer and dress historian Jenny Tiramani, from which readers can recreate one of Schwarz's most elaborate and politically significant outfits.
The Clothing of the Renaissance World
Title | The Clothing of the Renaissance World PDF eBook |
Author | Cesare Vecellio |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Clothing and dress |
ISBN |
Renaissance Fashions
Title | Renaissance Fashions PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Tierney |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 52 |
Release | 2000-02 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780486410388 |
Forty-five finely detailed, ready-to color illustrations depict an Italian peasant couple in wedding dress, children of a German royal family garbed in velvet, an English lord and lady in riding outfits, and more.
Writing Fashion in Early Modern Italy
Title | Writing Fashion in Early Modern Italy PDF eBook |
Author | Eugenia Paulicelli |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 510 |
Release | 2016-02-17 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1134787103 |
The first comprehensive study on the role of Italian fashion and Italian literature, this book analyzes clothing and fashion as described and represented in literary texts and costume books in the Italy of the 16th and 17th centuries. Writing Fashion in Early Modern Italy emphasizes the centrality of Italian literature and culture for understanding modern theories of fashion and gauging its impact in the shaping of codes of civility and taste in Europe and the West. Using literature to uncover what has been called the ’animatedness of clothing,’ author Eugenia Paulicelli explores the political meanings that clothing produces in public space. At the core of the book is the idea that the texts examined here act as maps that, first, pinpoint the establishment of fashion as a social institution of modernity; and, second, gauge the meaning of clothing at a personal and a political level. As well as Castiglione’s The Book of the Courtier and Cesare Vecellio’s The Clothing of the Renaissance World, the author looks at works by Italian writers whose books are not yet available in English translation, such as those by Giacomo Franco, Arcangela Tarabotti, and Agostino Lampugnani. Paying particular attention to literature and the relevance of clothing in the shaping of codes of civility and style, this volume complements the existing and important works on Italian fashion and material culture in the Renaissance. It makes the case for the centrality of Italian literature and the interconnectedness of texts from a variety of genres for an understanding of the history of Italian style, and serves to contextualize the debate on dress in other European literatures.
Vecellio's Renaissance Costume Book
Title | Vecellio's Renaissance Costume Book PDF eBook |
Author | Cesare Vecellio |
Publisher | |
Pages | 156 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | 9780486234410 |
All 500 woodcut illustrations from the famous 16th-century compendium: nobles, matrons, peasants, more. New English captions. Includes clothing from Italy, France, Spain, England, Northern Europe, Germany, Central Europe, Eastern Europe, European Turkey, Africa, Asia, and America.