>> I also worried about the headdress for my Valois gown as it was extremely >> decorative and could look like I was assuming status I don't have as a >> Pointy Hatted person. But it was far enough on the back of my head to not >> look like a circle or coronet at all.
> If you are talking about this headdress, > http://www.marileecody.com/isabel.jpg > I don't see how it could be mistaken for a circlet or coronet. From my > understanding, this is an elaborate French hood. Some think of is a > Renaissance pillbox hat. There is a nice close up of her head in bildindex. I can't find it which is extremely annoying. I'm sure someone posted it from here.... Or was it that I had a close up of her head froma book.... It's the Anguissola portrait of her I was recreating: http://sayaespanola.glittersweet.com/isabeldevalois.htm Actually there is a lot of misunderstanding about these headdresses. There are indeed "pillbox" hats (you see them in some side on portraits, others have done more research though) but there are also a great many headdresses that are essentially jewellery that is matched to the carcanet and any other jewellery around the neck/chest region. If you look at the close ups of her head in the orange gown you can see hair. You can also see this in the image from Sotheby's at the top of the page from her time in France. I just found a nice light image of the Coello painting of Isabel's daughter: http://www.bildindex.de/bilder/sp00113g10a.jpg You can see her hair behind the pearls which shows more hair dressing. Clouet's portraits are great for seeing more of the jewelled headdresses: http://cgfa.sunsite.dk/c/p-clouet5.htm http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Fran%C3%A7ois_Clouet_003.jpg This is really similar to Elizabeth de Valois arrangement in the Orange gown, with a flat almost lattice on the head and the hair arranged behind. http://www.abcgallery.com/C/clouet/frclouet1.html This is a really bad example, someone has coloured over the original sketch which is quite different. You can see in the painting of her she is wearing a white gown with silver couching and no hat in her hair: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marguerite_de_France_(1553-1615) http://expositions.bnf.fr/renais/grand/071bis.htm This looks to be the same lattice type of arrangement. http://lionel.mesnard.free.fr/le%20site/4-2-paris-renaissance-2.html http://www.culture.gouv.fr/public/mistral/joconde_fr?ACTION=CHERCHER&FIELD_1=AUTR&VALUE_1=CLOUET%20François&DOM=All&REL_SPECIFIC=1&IMAGE_ONLY=CHECKED http://www.culture.gouv.fr/Wave/image/joconde/0042/m505204_02de4510_p.jpg JEANNE D'ALBRET, REINE DE NAVARRE Lot's of hair wrappng and jewels on the far back (what there is behind that.. who knows) http://www.artnet.com/PDB/PublicLotDetails.aspx?lot_id=424319628&page=1 Funny what you find.. this is just nifty so I'm popping it on the end here;) Michaela de Bruce http://glittersweet.com -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.5.1/326 - Release Date: 27/04/2006 _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
