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Rate the Dress: 16th century splendour - The Dreamstress 16th Century Paintings, 16th Century Portraits, Lego Batman 3, 16th Century Fashion, Grunge Look, Soul Eater, Historical Costume, Fashion Plates, Romantic Style

Thank goodness for Rate the Dress! It means that I have a definite excuse to focus entirely on historical fashions at least once a week! We were having such a good run on Rate the Dress: so many 8+ ratings in a row! And then I posted the pink, pigeon breasted, ruffle-dy, smock-dy, totally over-the-top 1900s frock-dy last week. Pop! There went the high ratings bubble! It wasn’t too terrible: there were a lot of 6s, and just enough 8s and 9s to bring it up to a nice, round 7 out of 10. For…

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Abigail Johnson
Cranach, Lucas the Elder (1472-1553) - 1530c. Portrait of a Young Woman (Uffizi, Florence) Cranach The Elder, 16th Century Fashion, Lucas Cranach, Istoria Artei, German Outfit, German Dress, Uffizi Gallery, German Fashion, Hieronymus Bosch

Lucas Cranach the Elder was a German painter and printmaker in woodcut and engraving. He learned the art of drawing from his father. We do not know how Cranach was trained, but it was probably with local south German masters, as with his contemporary Matthias Grünewald. According to Gunderam (the tutor of Cranach's children) Cranach demonstrated his talents as a painter before the close of the 15th century. His work then drew the attention of the Elector of Saxony, who attached Cranach to…

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Autumn Eis Herz