Portraiture to look at for the ropa

[liadethornegge]

Sweet... OK, taken from aclisto's post of today.

Looking through portraits I come to a few made by Coello, page found here.

La dama del armiño. There's also the portrait of Catalina Micaela de Austria, duquesa de Saboya.

And a few others by Bartolomé González

Doña Margarita de Austria and La reina Ana de Austria, cuarta mujer de Felipe II

For wierdness, a portrait of La Reina Doña Margarita de Austria, pregnant it looks like, also by González

In these pictures are a couple of visuals for my ropa sleeves. First one is slit down the centre like my plan was, with a row of the pickadils or whatever down either side of the opening. The second portrait seems to be a lot more common, with the mutton chop sleeve cut in half, buttons holding the halves together, or in this case, points. That would mean the back end would also have buttons along it, as in the third portrait.

I don't know what to do just yet - but I know I loved the vibrancy of the gold silk inside the first one's open sleeve.

Also Pantoja has some cool female portraits.

From the brush of one El Veronés (Paolo Caliari) comes one of the most gorgeous gowns I saw there, I just LOVE the colours:
Retrato de una mujer con un perrito

I just have to say WOW do I love this site!

(ps I Love Deepest Sender!)