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  THREE FIGURES OF SAINTS– STUCCO DECORATION FROM THE 11th CENTURY– TEMPIETTO DI SANTA MARIA IN VALLE, CIVIDALE The sharp stucco relief highlights the characteristics of 11th-century female attire: flat hairstyles with parts in the middle of the forehead, clothing with very wide sleeves, with tiny pleats, hooded, closed cloaks. …

  GROUP OF MAGNATES – DETAIL OF THE EXULTET MINIATURE, COD, VAT, LAT, 3784 – DATABLE AT THE XI CENTURY – LIBRARY, MONTECASSINO The economic Italian awakening is reflected in greater laic prestige. In the magnate’s masculine garments the byzantine tradition is still sensible and is manifested in the cut …

  DONATORS BENO DA RAPIZA AND MARIA MACELLARIA – PARTICULARS OF THE AFFRESCO DI SAN CLEMENTE – DATABLE AFTER 108 – BASILICA SOTTERRANEA DI SAN CLEMENTE, ROME Precious documentation of secular clothing which denotes an elevated decorum among the higher classes. The wide sleeved smock from Maria Macellaria is of …

  COLORS IN IMPERIAL ROME AND BYZANTIUM. This gave rise to the “sumptuary laws”, which were often ignored in reality. These laws were  intended to regulate the use of fabrics, especially purple fabric, which only the privileged and sovereign were supposed to wear. In contrast, the first Christians rejected the …

  IVORY BUCKET BELONGING TO ARCHBISHOP GODFREY – DATED BETWEEN 974 AND 979 – TREASURY OF THE DUOMO, MILANO While based on tradition, the X century clothing displayed in the iconographic representations is characterized, for scholars and the elderly, by the figure of Saint Mark. From the hairstyle slightly covering …