Sunday, April 27, 2008

Renaissance Era Costumes

India AND Olmec (MesoAmerica)
India AND Olmec* (Mesoamerica)



Ireland
Ireland



Assyria, Arabia, Croatia
Assyria, Arabia, Croatia



Assyria, Arabia, Croatia a
Assyria, Arabia, Croatia



Hungary
Hungary



Italian costumes
Italy



Northern Greece, Ethiopia and Tatar people national costumes
Northern Greece, Ethiopia and Ta(r)tar* people



Palestine
Palestine



Russia, Poland, Finland, Lapland, Croatia
Russia, Poland, Finland, Lapland, Croatia



Russia, Poland, Finland, Moscow, Lapland, Croatia (a)
Russia, Poland, Finland, Moscow, Lapland, Croatia



The Orient
The Orient



Turkey
Turkey



Turkey a
Turkey



Venice
Venice



Greece, Tartar peoples, Iraq, Saracen peoples
Greece, Ta(r)tar peoples, Iraq, Saracen* peoples



'Kostüme der Männer und Frauen in Augsburg und Nürnberg, Deutschland, Europa, Orient und Afrika - BSB Cod.icon. 341' at Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek contains around three hundred hand-painted national costumes produced in the 16th century.

The anonymous manuscript was probabaly created in Augsburg and seems to be one of a very few similar works from around the same time period. There are a couple of scanned pages attached to Cod.icon 341 in German (one, two) with some contextual background - that I can't read of course - but that's about the extent of online references.

The captions above are the rough chapter - country - translations with a little modernising and, in the interests of avoiding any unintended international incidents, should probably be taken with a grain of salt. All the images above were extensively background cleaned which was totally a waste of time. If your model chooses to match red boots with a green and pink silk-lined cape, it's an exercise in futility believing that that ensemble can be saved by any amount of tweaking at the margins. [via Marion McNealy]

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