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I was lamenting a while back that I couldn't find any 15c Italian images of belt pouches. Well, I finally found one in this Ghirlandaio portrait of Francesco Sassetti. I swear it looks familiar, but maybe it just looks like some other things I've seen. It's clearly a trapezoidal belt pouch, though the details are a little hard to work out. Now, the date is listed at c. 1487, which matches with the boy's clothes, so this still doesn't give me a belt pouch with the earlier mid-century structured-pleats style, so I'm not going to go crazy yet.

I've also thought about making something like Sassetti's red gown here. I'd like to have something I can just throw on for Friday nights or business meetings or whatnot. I even have some red linen that might do for it. I imagine it should properly be made of wool or at least something heavier than my thin linen, but I don't want to burn up, especially if I wear it over other layers.

on 2010-04-06 07:48 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] operafantomet.livejournal.com
That is a quite touching portrait! Many Florentine 15th century portraits seems so stiff, but this one had a personal atmosphere.

I have a depiction of a craftsman using a belt pouch too . I found it in the book "Italian Frescoes" (I think it was "The Early Renaissance" edition, here: http://www.abbeville.com/bookpage.asp?ISBN=9780789201393 ). They're from the region Valle d'Aosta near the French and Swiss borders, and depicts the everyday life of various trades and workers in the region, ca. 1495. They're absolutely delightful, I should post them in my blog.





Still not mid-15th century, but anyway...

on 2010-04-06 07:54 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] peteyfrogboy.livejournal.com
Yeah, the pouches start showing up again toward the end of the century. That's a nice image for the next outfit I'm doing though...

on 2010-04-06 07:53 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] operafantomet.livejournal.com
You need to see this one too! I thought of you when I found it:



on 2010-04-06 07:55 pm (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] peteyfrogboy.livejournal.com
Yeah, that one's a lot of fun. :) I've seen it before, but not so big, I think.

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