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mmcnealyToday is supposed to be my "Write the stupid final paper" day, but I think it would be a whole lot more interesting to sit around and surf the net for cool looking books that I'd like to check out from the library.
For all you Italien Ren mavens out there, here's a book for you:
"The Art and Ritual of Childbirth in Renaissance Italy" by Jacqueline Marie Musacchio, Yale University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-300-07629-0
I literally stumbled across this book at the library while looking for something else. It is loaded with lots of detailed images of interior scenes that give lots of good detail. Most are from the late 1400's to early 1500's, but there is one particularly wonderful image of a baptism processional scene from Venice in the mid to late 1500's, the costume details are wonderful in this book.
My two cents on the Birbari vs Herald debate..... Birbari gives cutting layouts and hardly any pictures, also misses some large developments in Italian fashion and pretty much seems to skip the matter of headgear that's not a veil. Herald doesn't give pattern cutting layouts, but does offer up reasonably good text and very detailed pictures, some of them showing styles of Italian clothing that I hadn't run across in my art trolling sessions.
For all you Italien Ren mavens out there, here's a book for you:
"The Art and Ritual of Childbirth in Renaissance Italy" by Jacqueline Marie Musacchio, Yale University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-300-07629-0
I literally stumbled across this book at the library while looking for something else. It is loaded with lots of detailed images of interior scenes that give lots of good detail. Most are from the late 1400's to early 1500's, but there is one particularly wonderful image of a baptism processional scene from Venice in the mid to late 1500's, the costume details are wonderful in this book.
My two cents on the Birbari vs Herald debate..... Birbari gives cutting layouts and hardly any pictures, also misses some large developments in Italian fashion and pretty much seems to skip the matter of headgear that's not a veil. Herald doesn't give pattern cutting layouts, but does offer up reasonably good text and very detailed pictures, some of them showing styles of Italian clothing that I hadn't run across in my art trolling sessions.
