Images of Women's Italian Renaissance Costume in Paintings

1365

Giotto di Stefano, called Giottino

Pietà

Tempera on wood

1420

BALDOVINETTI, Alessio

Portrait of a Lady in Yellow

Wood

1422

Gentile da Fabriano

Madonna and Child

tempera on panel

1436

Pisano

Portrait of a Princess of the House of Este

1436-38

1472

Sandro Filipepi, called Botticelli

The Return of Judith

Tempera on wood

1485

Sandro Filipepi, called il Botticelli

The Birth of Venus

Tempera on canvas

1485-90

Domenico GHIRLANDAIO

Birth of the Virgin

detail of figures

detail of fabric on main figure

fresco

1485-90

Florentine Women's dress

"Birth of the Virgin" adapted in

"The History of Costume by Braun & Schneider "

1485-90

Domenico GHIRLANDAIO

Birth of the John the Baptist (detail)

fresco

1488

Domenico GHIRLANDAIO

Portrait of Giovanna Tornabuoni,

wood

1490

Da Vinci

Portrait of a Lady of the Court of Milan

1500s

BOLTRAFFIO, Giovanni Antonio

Portrait of a Young Woman

Oil on canvas

1509

Giorgione

Portrait of Warrior with his Equerry

Oil on canvas

(OK, so it's not woman's costume, it's a great image. LOL)

1510

Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio

Portrait of a Woman, called "The Nun"

Tempera on wood

1510

CARPACCIO, Vittore

Two Venetian Ladies

Oil on wood, 94 x 64 cm
Museo Correr, Venice

1516

Jacopo Pontormo

Lady with a Basket of Spindles

Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

1520

BACCHIACCA

The Preaching of Saint John the Baptist (detail)

Oil on wood

1525

Venetian School: Portrait of a Lady

National Galery, London

1527-1531

Bernardino Luini

Herodias

Tempera on wood

1528

Veronese

Giustiniana Barbaro & Nurse

1530

Anguissola, Sofonisba

Profile Portrait of a Young Woman

Oil on canvas

1540-50

Veronese Bonfacio

Dives and Lazarus (detail)

Oil on canvas

1540

Agnolo di Cosimo, called Agnolo Bronzino

Portrait of Lucrezia Panciatichi

Tempera on wood

1540

Bacchiacca

Portrait of a Woman with a Book of Music

1540

Agnolo Bronzino

A Young Woman and Her Little Boy

oil on panel

1540

Moretto

Portrait of a Young Woman

 

1540s

Unknown

Portrait of a Florentine Noblewoman

San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego

1540s

Agnolo Bronzino

Portrait de la duchesse Eleonore

Galerie Narodni, Prague

1545

Agnolo di Cosimo, called Agnolo Bronzino

Portrait of Eleonora di Toledo with her Son Giovanni

Tempera on wood

1550s Luca Cambiaso

Virgin and Child

Oil on canvas

1550s

Sofonisba Anguissola

Double Portrait of a Lady & Her Dog

no date

1550s

Unknown

Portrait of a Lady

The National Gallery, London

1551

Agnolo di Cosimo, called Agnolo Bronzino

Portrait of Maria de'Medici

Tempera on wood

1554

Sofonisba Anguissola

Self Portrait

1554

1565

Sofonisba Anguissola

Elizabeth of Valois

1565

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