REFERENCES USED
Without the following references, I could not have found enough information to create this site.
BOOKS
Libro de Geometria, Pratica Y Traca, Juan de Alcega 1589, facsimile and translation by J Pain and C Bainton in 1978, reprinted since then.
The Renaissance, Stefano Zuffi published by Collins 2003
A History of Costume in the West by Francois Boucher., published by thames and Hudson 1988
Hispanic costume, 1480-1530 by Ruth Matilda Anderson, published by the Hispanic Society of America, 1979
The Prado Museum : [collection of paintings] / Alessandro Bettagno ... [et al.] ; prologue, Mario Vargas Llosa ; introduction José Mariá Luzón Nogué ; [translation, Annie Bennett in association with First Edition Translation Ltd]., published by Fonds Mercator ; Fundacio´n Amigos del Museo del Prado ; distributed by Abrams, c1996
Felipe II : un príncipe del Renacimiento : un monarca y su época : Museo Nacional del Prado, 13 de octubre de 1998, 10 de enero de 1999. Catalogue of an exhibition at the Prado Museum, published by Sociedad Estatal para la Conmemoración de los Centenarios de Felipe II y Carlos V, c1998
Spanish art : an introductory review of architecture, painting, sculpture, textiles, ceramics, woodwork, metalwork / by R.R. Tatlock ... [et al.]., published for the Burlington Magazine by Batsford, 1927
Costume of the western world : The dominance of Spain, 1550-1660, published by Harrap, 1951.
Die mode : menschen und moden im mittelalter vom untergang der alten welt bis zur renaissance, nach bildern und kunstwerken der zausgewählt und geschildert von Max von Boehn, published by München : F. Bruckmann, a.g., [1925].
The Book of Costume, Milia Davenport Crown Publishers, 1972.
History of Costume, Karl Kohler ed. and augemented by Emma von Sichart, tr. by Alexander K. Dallas. published byGeorge G. Harrap, 1928, also reprinted by Dover
History of Costume, Blanche Payne
Patterns of Fashion, Janet Arnold
ONLINE
http://www.bildindex.de/
Bildindex, the biggest site of images I have yet come across. They are constantly updating. I've used this a lot especially for German dress as I am more familiar with more artists of that country.
http://www.artcyclopedia.com
Artcyclopedia, a brilliant links site where you can find the names of most prominant artists for each country and then click to museums with galleries on the net.
http://search.sothebys.com/
Southebies, you can search through the catalogues of past auctions and find many many portraits never seen in books due to being in private collections.
http://www.flg.es/
An amazing museum site, and you can search by century and collection type.
http://gallery.euroweb.hu/ or http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/
Web Gallery of Art, huge site and you can sort through 50 year eras and by country and arist.
http://www.asn-ibk.ac.at/bildung/faecher/geschichte/maike/
A wonderful site in German that includes many images not commonly found elsewhere. Mostly European Royalty of the late Gothic and Renaissance.
http://ladysarafina.home.att.net/spanish_portraits.htm
Lady Sarafina has a nice sized gallery on her site, the iamges I believe are from a book called The Dominance of Spain, which is part of a series of books also bound as a single volume dealing with fashion of the 16thC.
http://www.abcgallery.com/
A very good site with many images easily searched through.
http://www.volny.cz/dodovaseq/renesance.html
A Czech site with many very interesting images I had not seen before.
http://worldroots.com/brigitte/royal2/isabellacastile1451album.htm
lots of nice images from the early years of Spanish costume.
http://www.metmuseum.org/
A very nice museum site with the ability to view objects and paintings in reasonable detail.
http://collectionsonline.lacma.org
A wonderful source, very difficult to link to but extremely worthwhile visiting and searching for prints and items of apparel especially.
http://www.photo.rmn.fr/
Interesting site with a few images I've not seen before. Good for a wide range of costume study areas.
http://www.vertetsable.com/
Wonderful site for reaserch into 16thand 17thC costuming.
http://costume.dm.net
The hub for Elizabethan clothing, and many other sections and links for clothing of other nations.
http://www.geocities.com/aclisto8/home.html
Personal costume site with images for research purposes..
SINGLE IMAGES
http://www.manueldevillena.org/arbol/Paginas/persons.html
Geneology page with images where possible
http://montessorilyceumhermanjordan.zeist.kennisnet.nl/muziek/ckv2/hofcultuur/vrouwen.htm
I can't find a main page to this site, it appears to deal with culture of the late Renaissance.
http://phelan.ou.edu/anya/blk_satin2.html
Personal costume site, with reference images.
http://www2.cajasanfernando.es/htm/obrasocial/expvir/emporio/emporio.htm
Online cataloge of an exhibition in Seville, 1995.
http://www.pinakothek.de/alte-pinakothek/
AltePinakothek, museum site with many art works.
http://www.alfayomega.es/estatico/anteriores/alfayomega336/enportada/enportada.html
Site about Isabel the Catholic.
http://homepage.mac.com/festive_attyre/research/working.html
Research site about late 16thC Flemish working women's dress
http://www.mystudios.com/
Partially commercial art site with galleries of art.
http://www.bluffton.edu/womenartists/
University site with information on many artits.
http://www.culturageneral.net
Spanish site for all kinds of arts.
http://www.thrednedlestrete.com
Elizabethan costume page with many images and discussions.
http://www.mirafloresdelasierra.org
Official site for Miraflores in Sienna.
http://www.radio.cz/
Czech news site, with archives.
http://www.enterbrasil.com/ruth/ruth.html
Perosnal doll art section of a large information site.
http://www.traditioninaction.org
Site for some Catholic traditional people.
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