If you could make garb to match a portrait........

[DragonWing]

I happened across this portrait and thought, WOW! would that be an ambishus project

[Lady Kett]

I happened across this portrait and thought, WOW! would that be an ambishus project

Perhaps...but quite handsome too!

[DragonWing]

  True, true. I am loving the jewels and pearls on it. And how about those 4 fluffy feathers on the hat?

[Lady Isabella]

Lol! The hats my favorite part!!!

[LadyAnna]

I'm using this dress as the inspiration for mine. I'm using a pattern, but have done some modifications to make it look more like this dress. I love the red dress with black sleeves =)

http://realmofvenus.renaissanceitaly.net/wardrobe/CarpaccioBetrothed.jpg

[DonaCatalina]

I'm using this dress as the inspiration for mine. I'm using a pattern, but have done some modifications to make it look more like this dress. I love the red dress with black sleeves =)

http://realmofvenus.renaissanceitaly.net/wardrobe/CarpaccioBetrothed.jpg

Of course all those pearls on the sleeves call to me too.

[operafantomet]

Auryn, I renamed the Moretto da Brescia portrait you had linked to above. That is why the deleted symbol comes up. Hotlinking drains my bandwidth, especially in forums cause every time people load the site it eats a bit of the little bandwidth I have. I noticed several of you hotlink (meaning putting IMG tags around a .jpg link), and without wanting to sound like a forum police, do think about what this does to other people's sites. I'm sorry if this comes off as pointing fingers, but I just visited my Photobucket and found out I was almost out of bandwidth for this month, even though the storage percent is only at 46%. And the reason turned out to be hotlinking in several forums (not just here).

If it's possible to upload the picture to your own server, or to post the link without IMG tabs around it, I think this is a better way of sharing pictures.

[Lady Rosalind]

Now that I found this in one of my new, free books, I really want to make it! Just lovely and simple!



I'm thinking light blue linen, as I don't look the best in green...

[DonaCatalina]

This has to be the most unattractive Renaissance era portrait that I've ever seen.
RAFFAELLO portrait of Elisabetta Gonzaga
c. 1503

[Lady Kett]

This has to be the most unattractive Renaissance era portrait that I've ever seen.

The dress has potential though!

She does look as if she is saying, "If you do not finish this portrait NOW, you will be fed to the rats."

[DonaCatalina]

This has to be the most unattractive Renaissance era portrait that I've ever seen.

The dress has potential though!

She does look as if she is saying, "If you do not finish this portrait NOW, you will be fed to the rats."

I think that might be the scorpion on her forehead talking. LOL.

[operafantomet]

I think that might be the scorpion on her forehead talking. LOL.

Haha!  The portrait was a part of a large exhibit in 2009. It was paired by a similar scorpion jewelry from the mid or late 16th century, I think it was from Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. I never saw the exhibition myself, I just read about it, but I remember being curious in the actual meaning of a scorpion in the 16th century. Especially since she wears it so prominently on her forehead. Might just have been fashion, but I choose to think it relates to her in some way.

[DonaCatalina]

This was not in my Moroni catalog, but its shown up recently identified as his. I am itching to do this sleeve treatment.
Moroni portrait of a lady
Click the link since its a large photo.

[operafantomet]

Wow, I've never seen that one before. Gorgeous!! It actually reminds lot of the crimson Pisa dress in terms of sleeves and trim placement, but the bodice is a lot stricter (continental) than the Florentine style. I would almost have guessed Cremona and Sofonisba Anguissola for this one.

Thanks for sharing!

[Lady Rosalind]

This was not in my Moroni catalog, but its shown up recently identified as his. I am itching to do this sleeve treatment.
Moroni portrait of a lady
Click the link since its a large photo.

And yet another to add to my list of favorites! I can't remember seeing this one before, either!