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  BENEDETTO ANTELAMI – MONTH OF JUNE – HIGH-RELIEF DATING TO THE LATE XIII CENTURY – BATTISTERO, PARMA   The short tunic with sleeves and a belt cinching the waist is a generic characteristic of manual laborers; during the hot months, the farmers went barefoot, however, the hairstyle of this …

  THE ELECT OF THE LORD, THE NEW JERUSALEM AND THE GUARDIAN ANGELS – MOSAIC OF THE TRIUMPHAL ARCH DATABLE BETWEEN 817 AND 824 – CHURCH OF SAINT PRAXEDIS, ROME The hieratic composure of the IX century apparel remains faithful to the byzantine tradition. The women distinguished themselves by their …

Year 480 –  Milan Art Museum. The costumes of the Roman working class after the fall of the Western Roman Empire remained pretty much unchanged. The short bob hairstyle of the sixth century helped give the men a rather harsh and austere appearance.