New Haven BRBL MS 411: Hours, use of Rome: Detail: Justice
- Published/Created:
- 1500
- Date Depicted:
- 1975
1500 AD - 1699 AD - Notes:
- The bodice and skirt are made of different colors. Unlikely for the period, perhaps this is a two piece garment.
- Abstract:
- Middle Gothic dress is largely transitional. Familiar forms develop exaggerations. Necklines are lower. Skirts and sleeves are longer, even dragging on the ground. Shoes are more pointed. Fabrics are lush and saturated with color. Garment edges are finished in cutwork, such as scalloping, dagging, and foliating. Women seem to flutter and sway as they move. The sideless gown is the one important new garment. Sleeveless like a jumper, from under the arms to below the hips it is completely cut away. It is quite long in front and has a train. Extra skirt fullness is gathered into a curved band at the sides. The plastron, a shaped and separate piece decorated with jeweled button trim, is often added to the bodice front. After its life is over as a fashionable gown, it continues as a ceremonial garment.
- Topics:
- Costume -- Europe -- History -- (LC)
Manuscripts -- France -- 16th century -- (YVRC) - Period/Style:
- Gothic (Medieval)
- Culture:
- French
- Accession Number:
- 4389-060
- Genre:
- costume (mode of fashion) (AAT)
illuminated manuscripts (AAT) - Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Archives or Manuscripts
Clothing & Accessories
Paintings & Drawings - Rights:
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Access Restrictions:
- Yale Community Only
- Source Creator:
- Button, Jeanne and Sbarge, Stephen
- Source Title:
- History of Costume, In Slides, Notes and Commentaries: Volume 2
- Source Created:
- New York, NY
Theatre Arts Slide Presentations
1975 - Call Number:
- GT513 +B87 2 (LC)
- Yale Collection:
- Visual Resources Collection
- Digital Collection:
- Visual Resources Collection
- Original Repository:
- New Haven, CT: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
- Extent of digitization:
- G.11
- OID:
- 10596368
- PID:
- digcoll:1803821