Pinkdiamond just posted a bunch of links...

[isabelladangelo]

...to portraits at Christies.

Very similar to what I've been seeing in Naples in the late 16th c...

So, Anne of the Thousand Days didn't have it wrong? :-) (Hint: Check out the french hood. Notice something?)

See? Dress up your dog is period. (Yes, that style is just barely out of period, but I do have other sources that show dogs were dressed to match their owners, pink ribbons in this case, or their owners heraldry..or just dressed up!)

More Italian Pretties

Thanks to pinkdiamond for posting these and a heck of a lot more. These were just the ones I really liked/thought were amusing.

Comments

[cathgrace.livejournal.com]

nope it's definitely her hair, if you zoom in on the large version you can see individual strands, and painted shines.