The splendour of the royal Byzantine vestments is portrayed in the figure of St. Agnes – with an crown articulated with segments and pendants, wide collar (maniakion) with sapphires and pearls, beautiful golden and jewelled scarf (loros) which enwraps shoulders and falls down the front, a striped and embellished dalmatic …

“Women are the Furies, the Amazons, the Semiramis, the Joan of Arc” thundered Valentine de Saint Point in his scandalous ” Manifesto of Futurist Woman.” The art world of the early twentieth century was, in fact, the battle for women who just said stop to the home angels of the …

Lo splendore delle vesti regali bizantine è rappresentato nella figura di Sant’Agnese con corona a segmenti snodati e pendagli, largo collaretto (maniakion) con zaffiri e perle, splendida sciarpa aurea e gemmata (loros) che circonda le spalle e ricade sul davanti, dalmatica con strisce e ornamenti (patagi e orbiculi) pure gemmati, …

Small balls are the most usual trimmings of the strings.  This type of tie is worn in some areas of the Alps.  However, it also can be seen on the neck of older people along the French Riviera as well as that of Liguria.