The Ornamented Being
Ornamented: -verb: Adorn; beautify. Be·ing: -noun: Fulfillment of possibilities; essential completeness.
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Code: VB02727
Artist: ********
Title: Lock of Lucrezia Borgia’s hair (1480-1519)
Location: Pinacoteca Ambrosiana
City: Milan
Country: Italy
Period/Style: Renaissance
Genre: Documentary
Note: Casket on a malachite stand, height 30 cm. (Inv. 282).
Credits:© Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana/DeAgostini Picture Library/Scala, Florence(Source: digitalgallery.nypl.org)
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Juan Carreño de Miranda - Inés de Zúñiga, Condesa de Monterrey, c. 1660-1670. Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid.
ca. 1683 Dama de la Casa de Medinaceli (probablemente la Duquesa de Feria) by Juan Carreño de Miranda (Hospital Tavera, Toledo Spain)
1665-1670 Doña Francisca de Velasco, Marquesa de Santa Cruz by Juan Carreño Miranda (Coll. Marqueses de Isasi - Madrid Spain)
Velázquez, Diego (1599-1660) The Infanta Don Margarita de Austria Date: 1652-53
I don’t know why, I just love these portraits!
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‘Vest feminine silk in two colors. With wide straight neckline, decorated with chopped technique with floral motifs and trimmed with satin stitch set blue. It closes in the back with eyelets. The female portraits of the time, namely the Queen Maria Luisa of Orleans made by the painter Carreño de Miranda, show us this kind of genuinely Spanish doublet’.
Baroque, ca. 1670 -1695; Güell Viscount Grant, 1934; Museum Traj
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Le corsage de l’Infante
Collection of Ollivier Henry
Early 17th century
Spanish bodice
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Elector Moritz of Saxony (1521-1553)
I would like to state for the record I read that as Elector Moritz of Sexony
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French skirt, c. 1710
Museum of Arts and Crafts, Zagreb
I love the textiles and colours
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Photoset reblogged from Days Gone By
From Kerry Taylor Auctions: 1926 c. an ivory tulle and beetle-wing adorned dress, probably formed from an Edwardian skirt panel, further embellished with gold embroidery. I love the asymmetrical hemline.
Obviously for those who have been folowing me for quite some time I have a slight beetlewing embroidery addiction.
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‘The Rocket Dress’
The 1938 version of ‘Marie Antoinette’ is the only version I will watch over and over again.
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Portuguese Court Gown, LACMA, c. 1845
I’ve seen this gown in Paris, it’s stunning!
(Source: lacma.wordpress.com)
