Félix-Henri Giacomotti (1828-1909): Forbidden reading, 1886
Ladies in the library…
1490 Milanese, Italian Renaissance portrait of a lady by Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis.
1490 Milanese, Italian Renaissance portrait of a lady by Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis.
Rogier van der Weyden - Portrait of a Young Woman in a Pinned Hat (1435). Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie
About the hat: it’s a wimple, for the well-dressed, upper-class lady of the late Middle Ages. Here’s where to get your own wimple for $26.95, should you feel so inclined.
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Portrait of two girls in traditional Ukrainian dress, Kiev, c. 1890. Photo by the studio of V. Vysotsky.
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