Study of Costume as an Aid to the Dating of Italian renaissance Paintings
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An essay by Stella Mary Pearce (Mrs. Eric Newton) arguing that the study of costume can date Italian Renaissance paintings to within about five to ten years. She maintains that fashions in clothing and hairdressing changed quickly, that no painter escaped contemporary fashion, and that no painted figure is unaffected by it, even when dressed in classical or archaic garb. Examples come from Giotto, Mantegna, Carpaccio, Raphael, Lippi, Crivelli and others, with sixteen plates of painting details and comments on how Christ, the Apostles, the Madonna, angels and saints were dressed.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1953
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 24
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