| Renaissance Fashions Coloring Book Contributor(s): Tierney, Tom (Author) |
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ISBN: 0486410382 ISBN-13: 9780486410388 Publisher: Dover Publications OUR PRICE: $5.39 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2000 Annotation: A handsome collection of 45 finely detailed, ready-to color illustrations depicts clothing styles from every social class of the 15th and 16th centuries. Includes portraits of an Italian peasant couple, children of a German royal family garbed in velvet, an English lord and lady in riding outfits, and much more. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Nonfiction | Art - Fashion - Juvenile Nonfiction | Activity Books - General - Juvenile Nonfiction | History - Renaissance |
| Dewey: NA |
| Series: Dover Fashion Coloring Book |
| Physical Information: 0.23" H x 8.28" W x 11" (0.43 lbs) 48 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Renaissance marked Europe's transition from medieval to modern times. Art, literature, and science flowered in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, while a vigorous trade with the Far East via newly developed sea routes enabled Italian merchants to supply a recently evolved middle class with materials and adornments for elaborately designed apparel. After careful research, illustrator Tom Tierney has portrayed this dynamic age by accurately rendering an amazing diversity of clothing styles. Forty-five finely detailed, ready-to color illustrations showing attifets, chopines, doublets, farthingales, houppelandes, and other elements of Renaissance garb depict: an Italian peasant couple dressed for their wedding day (c. 1450); an Italian knight in steel armor (c. 1460); an English lord and lady in riding outfits (c. 1510); children of a German royal family garbed in velvet and accompanied by a soberly dressed nanny (c. 1550); and many more outfits designed for various activities and occasions. In addition, seven plates feature dozens of examples of fashionable headgear, footwear, and hairstyles for men and women, from several stages in the flourishing of Renaissance styles. Descriptive captions accompany each handsome, ready-to-color illustration, making this a collection that will appeal to colorists as much as it will delight costume historians and designers. |