Cesare Vecellio (artist; 1521-1601)
Cesare Vecellio (1521–1601) was a Venetian artist, cousin and collaborator of Titian, but best known for his work on Italian Renaissance dress, the Habiti Antichi et Moderni (1590).
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Chastity hair, with horns
Anybody engaging in Venetian history have stumbled over images of women with their hair set as a couple of horns. This hair dressing fashion first appeared at some time in the second half of the 1500s, and lasted into the early 1600s. Apparently, the style remained almost exclusively Venetian for the entire period. Despite being…
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Habiti Antichi et Moderni (1590) — Cesare Vecellio
This is the work on Renaissance dress, with many hundreds of woodcuts of people from all over the world, and almost one hundred of Venetians.