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The Prinzhorn collection is today a very beautiful and unique German museum in the city of Heidelberg, which voluntarily contributes its works to travelling exhibitions world-wide.  It owes itself to the psychiatrist and art-lover Hans Prinzhorn, who, in the early 1900s constituted a pioneering collection of so-called “irregular” art, produced …

An Aleutian painted by Louis Choris (1816-1817).  Wearing a shirt of intestine- with a hood and a hat with a painted visor made of thin, bent wood to give it shape –  sown at the back to achieve a plunging neckline. The Aleutians occupied the chain of islands that form …

  Certain shirts have tabs that join the wings of the collar, normally by a button, whose function is to keep the tie knot lifted.

EUFRASIO THE BISHOP, CLAUDIO THE ARCHDEACON AND HIS YOUNG SON” – 6TH CENTURY MOSAIC – BASILICA, PARENZO (ISTRIA).   The archdeacon is wearing the white dalmatic (tunic) decorated with red stripes running from the shoulders to the feet, and around the bottom of the sleeve, emphasising its amplitude; the baby …

  “OUR LADY OF MERCY” – FRAGMENT OF ANTIQUE MOSAIC– EARLY 8th CENTURY– CHIESA DI SAN MARCO, FLORENCE     The Virgin Mary is portrayed in the traditional sovereign pomp of the Byzantine Court and wearing a gleaming crown crenellated with jewels. A gleaming belt of pearls, closed by a …