"Girl in Venetian costume"
Closest that i can find to the gown that is Venetian
http://realmofvenus.renaissanceitaly.net/wardrobe/VenetianLady.jpg
Ferrera
http://festiveattyre.com/research/florentine/flor19.html
Florence
http://festiveattyre.com/research/florentine/flor15.html
The style really
Ooo, turns out Google has a nifty new way to search to do an image
search: you can drag an image into the image search bar, and it'll
find similar images, often the same image but at a different
resolution.
Using that, I learned that the painting in question is:
Ragazza in costume veneziano, 1874
Would love to see the thing up close but it looks like a portrait painted from a
photograph as was very popular with infomercials a few years back. Style seems
to represent an absent-minded person in a time machine who has visited
Renaissance, Victorian and 1830s all on the same day ... days ... ti
Well, being somewhat familiar with the site in the caption at the
bottom of the image, I'd definitely view it with suspicion, as
evidenced by this:
http://chzhistoriclols.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/funny-pictures-history-disco-duck-what-manner-of-plainchant-be-this.jpg
from the same general site..
The style of painting looks to be early 1900s, definitely modern. The
clothing style looks to be a blend of German and Italian.
The hat is German in style.
The hair would be in a caul with this type of hat.
The camicia/hemd style is seen both in Germany and Northern Italy in the
early Ren.
The gown
Cheezburger.com is a site which among other things allows you to to modify pics
(they call them lol builders) - usually with humorous results.
patty
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Not quite an answer, but another vote for "modern": A few years ago a
Ren magazine (Renaissance? This one?
http://www.renaissancemagazine.com/backissues/issue16.html) did a photo
article on people dressed and in settings approximating rennaissance
paintings. I don't recall your image as one of
I'd guess it is Victorian or even 20thCentury. The Renaissance era paintings
I've seen seemed to always have the sitter looking out at the viewer. Here
you don't see her eyes at all. Creepy.
Monica Spence
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Has anybody ever seen this before?
http://images.cheezburger.com/imagestore/2010/9/9/330d9013-0b7f-468b-9c3a-b22044bb4e02.jpg
It seems to me it's clearly a Victorian or later representation of a
Renaissance style, either Italian or German. But I've never seen it
before and have no idea where i
