Renaissance Costume Gallery. Fashion history coloring book. The Gallery of illustrations with little kids dressed in Renaissance costumes. Enjoy fun of coloring and learn fashion history. About the book: Art: Original artwork Pencil drawing illustration Line art Contents: 20 full figure costume illustrations Additional copy for each costume illustration 10 coloring pages with portraits 50 coloring pages in the book Costume: Historically accurate costume illustrated with precision in attention to details Learning fashion history by coloring historically accurate costume illustrations European Renaissance 15-16th century costume for ladies and for gentlemen How to use the book: The paper in the book is for dry media such as pencils, crayons, sketching sticks, and pastel, and not suitable for watercolor If you are planning to use markers or gel pens, place extra sheets of paper under the page of the book you are coloring to prevent ink from bleeding through the page and avoid marks or grooves underneath the coloring page "Test pages" at the end of the book are for trying out art media before coloring About the author Irina V. Ivanova is a professional illustrator, visual artist, and fashion designer, author of fashion drawing books (Fashion Croquis Sketchbooks and Fashion Croquis book series). Irina exhibited her illustrations and paintings in numerous art shows, creating her books and artwork in her Studio at Hallandale Beach, Florida.

This illustrated study displays a detailed gallery of costumes worn in the 11th through the 15th centuries. The 120 full-color plates exhibit apparel worn by nobility, knights, soldiers, the bourgeois, ecclesiastics, and citizens of all classes.

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.

Medieval Costume Gallery. Fashion history coloring book. The Gallery of illustrations with little kids dressed in Medieval costumes. Enjoy fun of coloring and learn fashion history. About the book: Art: Original artwork Pencil drawing illustration Line art Contents: 28 costume illustrations Additional copy for each costume illustration 56 coloring pages in the book Costume: Historically accurate costume illustrated with precision in attention to details Learning fashion history by coloring historically accurate costume illustrations European Medieval 12-15th century costume for ladies and for gentlemen How to use the book: The paper in the book is for dry media such as pencils, crayons, sketching sticks, and pastel, and not suitable for watercolor If you are planning to use markers or gel pens, place extra sheets of paper under the page of the book you are coloring to prevent ink from bleeding through the page and avoid marks or grooves underneath the coloring page "Test pages" at the end of the book are for trying out art media before coloring About the author Irina V. Ivanova is a professional illustrator, visual artist, and fashion designer, author of fashion drawing books (Fashion Croquis Sketchbooks and Fashion Croquis book series). Irina exhibited her illustrations and paintings in numerous art shows, creating her books and artwork in her Studio at Hallandale Beach, Florida.

Spurred by an increasingly international and competitive market, the Renaissance saw the development of many new fabrics and the use of highly prized ingredients imported from the New World. In response to a thirst for the new, fashion's pace of change accelerated, the production of garments provided employment for an increasingly significant proportion of the working population, and entrepreneurial artisans began to transform even the most functional garments into fashionable ones. Anxieties concerning vanity and the power of clothing to mask identities heightened fears of fashion's corrupting influence, and heralded the great age of sumptuary legislation intended to police status and gender through dress. Drawing on sources from surviving garments to artworks to moralising pamphlets, this richly illustrated volume presents essays on textiles, production and distribution, the body, belief, gender and sexuality, status, ethnicity, and visual and literary representations to illustrate the diversity and cultural significance of dress and fashion in the period.

A comprehensive study of dress in Northern Europe from the early fourteenth century to the beginning of the Renaissance,Illuminating Fashion is the first thorough study of the history of fashion in this period based solely on firmly dated or datable works of art. It draws on illuminated manuscripts, early printed books, tapestries, paintings, and sculpture from museums and libraries around the world. "Symbolism and metaphors are buried in the art of fashion," says Roger Wieck, the editor ofIlluminating Fashion. Examining the role of social customs and politics in influencing dress, at a time of rapid change in fashion, this fully illustrated volume demonstrates the richness of such symbolism in medieval art and how artists used clothing and costume to help viewers interpret an image. At the heart of the work isA Pictorial History of Fashion, 1325 to 1515, an album of over 300 illustrations with commentary. This is followed by a comprehensive glossary of medieval English and French clothing terms and an extensive list of dated and datable works of art. Not only can this fully illustrated volume be used as guide to a fuller understanding of the works of art, it can also help date an undated work; reveal the shape and structure of actual garments; and open up a picture's iconographic and social content. It is invaluable for costume designers, students and scholars of the history of dress and history of art, as well as those who need to date works of art.

Magnificent reproductions of 100 rare engravings from a much-imitated reference work depict with precision and elegance a wide range of social classes — from royalty and merchants to military officers and laborers.