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Dress in Baroque Portraiture: the Flight From Fashion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2011

Diana de Marly
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Summary

Baroque artists were so concerned at the changeability of contemporary fashion that they employed Roman, Arcadian and informal dress in portraits in an attempt to be timeless.

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The Antiquaries Journal , Volume 60 , Issue 2 , September 1980 , pp. 268 - 284
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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1980

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