Fashion at the Spanish court
CountessKate:
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It will be published in Madrid by the CEEH (Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica) later this year. There is a list of their publications in their website:
http://www.ceeh.es/
The proceedings of the conference are not yet on the list, but I guess the title will appear there as soon as it is published.
Many thanks for this - and I see a forthcoming publication will be on the Infanta Isabella Clara Eugenia, one of my heroines and a pretty snappy dresser amongst Spanish royals, until her widowhood.
Katerina - I forgot to recommend the website of the Prado museum - http://www.museodelprado.es/ - where you can search the collections where they are gradually putting every painting online. You can zoom in for wonderful details of the costumes. The painters suggested by trentk80 and myself above are a starting point.
Katerina Stradova:
Thanks for the info and the links, CountessKate and Trentk80.
Do you know if there ever was a distinctive Austrian court dress? It seems the court of Vienna dressed the Spanish way at least until Maria Teresa's era.
gogm:
The Spanish have a real sense of flair and style. It dates back at least to the 1500s, probably earlier. Here are various images of Spanish styles:
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From the 1500s -
This is a well-known portrait of Elisabeth de Valois wearing a saya:
Outtakes from this preceding image follow.
Another of Isabel de Valois:
Outtakes also follow this image.
Anna of Austria wearing a saya:
Gregoria Habsburg wearing a saya:
Constantina Habsburg, also wearing a saya:
The first of 19 images of Isabela Clara Eugenia (the set tracks this remarkable lady into the next century):
From the 1600s -
Infanta Maria Teresa by Velazquez, the first of 16 images from the Velazquez era. These are the ladies in skirts expanded to the sides and correspondingly wide headdresses made famous by Velazquez. They are wearing highly modified sayas:
gogm:
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Spanish style was eclipsed in the 1700s, but here are some from an entire album devoted to Iberian style from 1800 til now -
This is reina Maria Cristina:
Several outtakes from this spectacular Lopez y Portaña portrait of Maria Cristina follow as do other portraits of her.
Goya portraits show Spanish panache!
One of several portraits he painted of the Duquesa de Alba (AKA the clothed and naked maja):
Mariana Waldstein:
Dona Narcisa Baranana de Goicoechea:
1833 Marquesa de la Ulagares by Vicente Lopez Portaña:
This is one of 51 images of Queen Isabel II. She lost her beauty and gained weight, but she loved to dress up:
Reina Isabel II by Winterhalter:
Young Isabel by Madrazo y Kunz:
Another portrait of a larger Isabel II by Madrazo y Kunz:
1854 Angela, Duquesa de Medinaceli by Federico Madrazo y Kunz:
This album has 46 or 47 images of Isabel II's daughters. Isabel II's daughter Eulalia:
Infanta Eulalia with Olga paley:
1875 Manuela de Errazu by Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta:
Reina Maria de las Mercedes:
The post Belle Epoque era (including now) -
Cayatena, Duquesa de Alba:
1953 Condesa de Barcelona wearing fleur de lys tiara:
Museo Nacional del Prado has one heck of an online collection at:
http://www.museodelprado.es/coleccion/galeria-on-line/
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Katerina Stradova:
Does anybody know any other good books about Spanish court dress? There should be more titles.
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