The women's clothing we admire in Renaissance Venetian villas can essentially be divided into three groups: 16th-century dresses, historical recreations and antique-style inventions. However, none of these types can be considered entirely documentary or philological depictions. In reality, for each of these attire, painters can have recourse to certain devices, such as colour, the display of normally hidden garments, archaic variations and inventions “all’antica”. The aim is to give different meanings to the dress of the present or a form consistent with sixteenth-century culture to the clothes of the past.
Fashioning Femininity: Iconographic Readings of Sixteenth-Century Villa Frescoes
Alessandra Zamperini
2026-01-01
Abstract
The women's clothing we admire in Renaissance Venetian villas can essentially be divided into three groups: 16th-century dresses, historical recreations and antique-style inventions. However, none of these types can be considered entirely documentary or philological depictions. In reality, for each of these attire, painters can have recourse to certain devices, such as colour, the display of normally hidden garments, archaic variations and inventions “all’antica”. The aim is to give different meanings to the dress of the present or a form consistent with sixteenth-century culture to the clothes of the past.
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