A woman of excellent character : a case study of dress, reputation and the changing costume of Christine de Pizan in the fifteenth century

Author

Dufresne, Laura Rinaldi

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Dress. 1990, Vol. 17, p. 104-117, 6 ill.

ISSN

0361-2112

Abstract (en)

Opens with discussion of Christine de Pisan's own views on the advisability of dressing according to one's social rank. Then examines the costume selected for Christine in several portraits of her in French and Flemish manuscripts of her poem The treasures of the city of ladies. Concludes that, as her reputation increased in the decades following her death, artists depicted Christine de Pisan in increasingly costly and fashionable garb--in direct opposition to both fact and her own written word.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 300-1400 -- Decorative arts -- Textiles and costume
• Manuscript illumination
• 1400-1500
• Portraits
• Christine de Pisan, ca.1364-ca.1430
• Costume
• Society

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 300-1400 -- Arts décoratifs -- Textiles et costume
• Enluminure
• 1400-1500
• Portrait
• Christine de Pisan, v.1364-v.1430
• Costume
• Société

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19920401-00423612

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