#era: 17th century

[about-suffering]

Bathers at San Niccolò, 1600 Domenico Passignano [Domenico Cresti] (1559-1638)

[fashionsfromhistory]

Jacket

1590-1630

Great Britain

This simple unlined jacket represents an informal style of clothing worn by women in the early 17th century. Unlike more fitted waistcoats, this loose, unshaped jacket may have been worn during pregnancy. A repeating pattern of curving scrolls covers the linen from which spring sweet peas, oak leaves, acorns, columbine, lilies, pansies, borage, hawthorn, strawberries and honeysuckle embroidered in coloured silks, silver and silver-gilt threads. The embroidery stitches include chain, stem, satin, dot and double-plait stitch, as well as knots and couching of the metal threads. Sleeves and sides are embroidered together with an insertion stitch in two shades of green instead of a conventionally sewn seam. Although exquisitely worked, this jacket is crudely cut from a single layer of linen, indicating the work of a seamstress or embroiderer, someone without a tailor's training. It has no cuffs, collar or lining, and the sleeves are cut in one piece. The jacket was later altered to fit a thinner person. The sleeves were taken off, the armholes re-shaped, the sides cut down, and the sleeves set in again.

The Victoria & Albert Museum (Accession number: 919-1873)

[burningvelvet]

Renaissance era ship jewlery: pendants and a set of earrings (from the British Museum's digital collection and "Renaissance Jewelry in the Alsdorf Collection," The Art Institute of Chicago, 2000, accessed via the Internet Archive)

[cy-lindric]

Musketeer TTRPG characters & NPCs ! Our last couple of sessions was the classic inflitration of a high society party, a mysterious soirée with colour code names and weird drugs

[diemelusine]

Portrait of King James VI and I of Scotland and England (c. 1606) by John de Critz. Dulwich Picture Gallery.

[gwydpolls]

Time Travel Question 48: Early Modernish and Earlier 3

These Questions are the result of suggestions a the previous iteration.This category may include suggestions made too late to fall into the correct earlier time grouping. In some cases a culture lasted a really long time and I grouped them by whether it was likely the later or earlier grouping made the most sense with the information I had. (Invention ofs tend to fall in an earlier grouping if it's still open. Ones that imply height of or just before something tend to get grouped later, but not always. Sometimes I'll split two different things from the same culture into different polls because they involve separate research goals or the like).

Please add new suggestions below if you have them for future consideration. All cultures and time periods welcome.

[aq2003]

see normally i try to avoid and dislike using "they're ooc" as a criticism bc it's been historically used to flatten out a character's flaws. i want to use any possible in universe route to explain what's going on regardless of whether it aligns w authorial intent or not. anyway i think ten is ooc in girl in the fireplace

[dimingwins]

MEDIEVAL HELMET TOURNAMENT!

The Kabuto is a type of helmet used by Japanese warriors, later becoming an important part of the traditional Japanese armor worn by the samurai class. The one featured in the image is from the 15th century.

The Close Helmet was worn by knights in the late medieval era. Being a fully enclosing helmet with a pivoting visor. They were a popular choice for cavalry on the battlefield, along with a good pick for jousts.

[victoriaswillow]

Wolf in a Rocky Landscape by Frans Snyder (1650)

[onlinesweetheart]

<3

[olgadealexandria]

🫀EROS, GREEK GODS AND JEWELRY🫀

Gold earrings, Greek c.300 BCE, the MET Museum.

I'm in loveeee with these earrings! Depictions of gods in jewelry were common in Ancient Greek, especially the God of love, Eros.

These types of motifs were not only used by the Ancients, though. In the next photo, we can see depicted a centaur, its body made of a baroque pearl and decorated with sapphires and rubies.

Pendant in the form of a centaur, 16-17th century, the MET museum.

Another example, again, from the early 17th century, is this gorgeus pendant of Neptune on top of a sea monster:

Pendant in the Form of Neptune and a Sea Monster, early 17th century, the MET museum.

When I see objects from the past, I sometimes wonder who owned them. In this case, I think they were really lucky (and rich, too).

In all seriousness, this is my first post in English!! :) yaaay

[about-suffering]

Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting [La Pittura], c. 1638-1639 Artemisia Gentileschi (1539-1652)

[fashionsfromhistory]

Miniature English Bedchamber of the Jacobean or Stuart Era, 1603-1688

Narcissa Niblack Thorne & Unknown Artisans

c.1937

Art Institute of Chicago (Reference Number: 1941.1187)

[burningvelvet]

long book title enjoyers, have i got the man for you... (found this while reading the wiki page of john dunton, writer & bookseller who pioneered periodicals in the 17th-18th centuries).

[eyes-eyes-eyes-eyes-eyes-eyes]

1. are you are into fashion history at all

2. are you queer and/or neurodivergent

trying to prove something

[thepastisalreadywritten]

Evolution of Style.