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News:
Professors receive NEH grant to translate Vecellio work into English
Ann Rosalind Jones, professor of comparative literature at Smith College, and Margaret Rosenthal, associate professor of Italian at the University of Southern California, are translating Vecellio's 1590 costume edition. Smith College received $75,000 from the NEH to translate Cesare Vecellio's Degli Habiti Antichi et Moderni di Diverse Parti Del Mondo. Read more about it in "Translating Fashion Customs and Clothes in the Age of Exploration" by Laura Wolff Scanlan (in Humanities, January/February 2005, Volume 26/Number 1).
A note about images on the web and copyright: In general, the images originally produced by Cesare Vecellio are part of the public domain and are not protected by copyright law due to their age. However, as a good scholar it is strongly recommended that you cite the source from which images were taken (if noted) - primarily when they are derived from volumes held by a particular library. For more information, click here.
Vecellio's Images: Prints
Frontispiece of the 1598 edition in Italian
Similar to the frontispiece at the beginning of this site, this is another frontispiece from Habiti Antichi et Moderni... (1598) held by the Biblioteca Casanatense.
Various images from the Newberry's 1598 edition
As part of the Newberry Library's exhibit Elizabeth I: Ruler and Legend, images from Vecellio's 1598 volume owned by the library are used to illustrate during the reign on England's Queen Elizabeth I. NOTE: click on "View illustration close-ups" to see a number of pages from the 1598 edition. Very nicely done!
Various prints from the NYPL Digital Library Collection
See images of chefs de sbires, the Doge, knights, women and produce vendor. Images are taken from the New York Public Library's copies of Noers, usages et costumes au moyen-âge et à l'epoque de la Renaissance (Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1872), Manners, customs, and dress during the Middle Ages, and during the Renaissance period (London: Bickers, & Son [187-?]) and Military and religions life in the Middle Ages and at the period of the Renaissance (London: Bickers, & Son [187-?]).
Various images from the Biblioteca de la Universitat de Barcelona's 1590 edition in Catalan
From a 1590 edition held by the University of Barcelona, this site features nice examples of pages showing the dress of nobelwomen, courtesans, people of the Canary Islands, Moors and Turkish women.
Renaissance Figures / Figure Rinascimentale
Candida Martinelli has put together an extraordinary site for Italophiles. At this link you will find twenty-four colored images derived from Vecellio's 1590 edition. Ms. Martinelli advocates using the images to make paper dolls - which I think is a great way to get kids interested in Vecellio, costume and historical printing. Her passion is appreciated. NOTE: Click on the figure of your choice for the image and additional information. You might also want to visit her Italophile shop where you can find, among other things, a shirt featuring Vecellio's images. See below.
Various Images of Women
Mistress Oonagh O'Neill (Deborah Murray) has put together a very impressive site dedicated to Renaissance clothing. See images of Vecellio's women here: Elderly Venetian Lady and Winter Costume of Venetian Noblewoman, Venetian Prostitute in Wintertime and Neapolitan Baroness, Winter Costume of Venetian Noblewoman at Home and Outdoors and Turkish women.
Images of Women: 1664 and 1859/60 editions
From the Fashioning page on the Picturing Women site, this page shows a courtesan image from the 1664 edition and a "Vestale" from the 1859/1860 edition.
La favorita del Turco (The Sultan's Favorite)
This image is from the 1590 edition held in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Prints and Drawings collection. It is a visual component of the Museum's Timeline of Art History - used to illustrate the time period of 1400-1600 in Venice and Northern Italy.
Venetian costume of noblewomen and wealthy ladies
As part of a web site discussing a brief history of the 16th Century fashion of wearing muffs, and construction details of her own version, Laura Martinez uses various images from the time - including Vecellio's image of a noblewoman - to illustrate her points.
Courtesan
From "A Crowning Glory: Hairstyles and Headware in Venice" on The Realm of Venus web site, this section discusses various hairstyles, including those shown on a courtesan in Vecellio's 1590 edition.
Venetian Noblewoman and Venetian Noblewoman in Mourning
Also from The Realm of Venus web site, these 1598 images are used in the discussion "The Venetian Look in the Titian and Veronese Era: 1541 - 1570."
Venetian Lady in Winter
Another from The Realm of Venus site. This image is used to help the author create a 1590s Venetian camicia, corset, partlet and gown. Wow!
Venetian Prostitute in Wintertime
From an interesting site - Poodles in Art: Companion Poodles. Scroll to the bottom of the page to see Vecellio's image.
Venetian Soldier
The image of a Venetian solider from Degli habiti antichi... (1590) is used in Mario Ferruccio Belli's paper "The History of Cortina d'Ampezzo."
Courtyard of the Doges Palace in Italian
This site is primarily about Titian, but includes this architectural image from the 1598 Habiti antichi et moderni di tutto il mondo...
View of St Marks Place, Venice, Sixteenth Century after Cesare Vecellio
From Wikipedia.org and made available through Project Gutenberg, this is a city image done after one from either the 1590 or 1598 editions.
Peasant Images
From "Italian Working-class Dress: Examples found in Renaissance art from 1575-1600" on the a Festive Attire site by Jennifer Thompson, this site is dedicated to the study of historical costume from 1475 to 1625. Scroll down the page to see Vecellio's images of peasants.
Donna D'Ischia (Woman of Ischia)
From a site about the Island of Ischia, this site shows an image of Vecellio's "Donna D'Ischia" from the 1590 edition.
Images of Scandinavians: Nordmenn i italiensk 1500-talls plansjeverk in Norwegian
From the National Library of Norway (Nasjonalbiblioteket), this site shows numerous hand-colored pages of Scandinavians from the library's 1590 edition. NOTE: Click on the image to see a larger version.
Two Scandinavian images from De Gli Habiti Settentrionali (sic) in Swedish
From map and print dealer VÖBAM, this site shows two hand-colored images of a Spoza di Liuellandia (young married woman of Lolland [a Danish island]) and Norwegian man from Vecellio's 1590 edition. NOTE: Click on each image to see a larger version.
African Images in German
From a German site "Himmelfahrt mit schwarzer Kraft," this site discusses Vecellio's images of an Ethiopian soldier, a middle-class African woman and a Moorish girl. NOTE: Scroll to the very bottom of the page to see these images.
Image of a Moor: Othello
Clark University's Professor Virginia Vaughan uses Vecellio's image of a Moor (1590) in her discussion of Shakespeare's Othello. Unlike the image above, this image shows the full page with border and caption.
Corona delle nobili et vituose donne (1592)
See ten selected pages of volumes one and two from the Musée des Manufactures de Dentelles' (Retournac, France) copy of this beautiful work. My sincerest thanks to Bruno Ythier, Attaché de conservation du patrimoine, Directeur, for his kindness in allowing me to use these images here.
Vecellio's Images: Paintings
Portrait of a family with Oriental carpet/Porträt einer Familie mit orientalischem Teppich
From the Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerge der Malerei DVD-ROM (2002) this is a work in the Museo Correr in Venice. This same painting was included in the recent exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London: At Home in Renaissance Italy. Wonderful!
La Vierge, l'Enfant Jésus, Saint-Jean-Baptiste et un ange
See this painting - attributed to Vecellio - displayed at artnet.com regarding a sale of the work in 1998. Please note that you must be a member of artnet.com to see the sale information.
Three altar pieces: the Madonna and Child, St Candido and St Oswald, St Apollonio
From the official site of the Pieve di Cadore province. These images show the altarpieces painted in 1582, by Cesare Vecellio in the Church of San Candido.
Altare del Santi Fabiano e Sebastiano di Cesare Vecellio (1585) in Italian
This site shows an altarpiece painting in the Basilica Cattedrale, located in the Belluno region, showing the saints Fabian and Sebastian turning toward the Virgin of the Assumption. NOTE: Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the image to see an enlarged version.
Fore-edge painting of St. Jerome from Modern Tools Evaluate Ancient Works: The Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection
This very interesting account of the Library of Congress' Rare Book and Special Collections Division and Conservation Division's comprehensive computerized inventory program shows a very tiny (nearly indistinguishable) fore-edge painting by Cesare Vecellio of St. Jerome on Epistolae published in Parma in 1480. As Vecellio wasn't born until more than forty years later, we can probably assume his painting was not part of the original book's design. "This article is based on the Condition Survey Report of the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection by Daniel De Simone, curator of the Rosenwald Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division; and Beatriz Haspo, Getty Fellow in Preventive Conservation, Conservation Division; it was published in 2002."
Palazzo Piloni in Italian
This site provides a brief history of the Palazzo Piloni, including information about Vecellio's interior paintings.
Available for Purchase
Books: 16th-19th Century Editions
Costumes Anciens et Modernes (Paris: Firmin-Didot, 1859-60)
Provided by p4a.com, a service offering information on auction items and antiques, this site provides some detail on the mid-Nineteenth Century edition translated into French by Firmin Didot in Paris. No price estimates or sales specifics are given.
Habiti Antichi et Moderni di tutto il Mondo (Venice: Sessa, 1598)
Phillip J. Pirages (McMinnville, OR) is currently selling a copy of this edition for $6,500.
Books: 20th-21st Century Editions
Die Bemalten Orgelflugel in Europa (Rotterdam: Stichting Organa Historica, 2001)
This work on the painting of organ case doors in Europe includes "some 493 pairs of doors on pipe organ cases built throughout Europe and Great Britain from the period 1450 to 1700...the text, in German, describes the organs and the paintings which are important works of art, mostly by world-famous masters, among them Cesare Vecellio (although no illustrative example is shown on this site.) The book is being sold for $155.00 from the Organ Historical Society.
Cesare Vecellio, 1521c. - 1601 (Conte Tiziana/A.C., 2001) from Libreria Campedel in Italian
Essays collected from the celebration of Cesare Vecellio 400 years after his death held in the Belluno Province, Italy in 2001. Price: €25,82. This work is also available directly from the Provincia di Belluno for €28.82.
Cesare Vecellio, 1521c. - 1601 and Il vestito e la sua immagine: Atti del convegno a Cesare Vecellio nel quarto centenario della morte, Belluno 20-22 settembre 2001
From Michael Shamansky Bookseller. See site for description and prices.
Habiti antichi et moderni di diverse parti del mondo [contemporary publication] (publishing specifics unknown)
Reproduction of images from the 1590 edition by Cesare Vecellio. Introduction by Gillo Dorfles. Price: €23,24.
Kostiumirovannyi bal v Zimnem dvortse (Bal d'hiver) 2 Volumes (Moscow, 2003)
From bookseller: One of an edition limited to .4000 copies. (T.1 Al'bom s fotografiiami i biograficheskimi stat'iami. T.2:.Issledovaniia, dokumenty, materialy.) Izdanie na angliiskom i russkom iazykakh. In English and Russian. Price GBP 325.00.
L'occhio di Cesare Vecellio: abiti e costumi esotici nel '500 by Jeannine Guérin Dalle Mese (Edizioni dell'Orso, 1998) in Italian
Read the introduction and table of contents here. This work is available from Amazon.com and the International Book Shop for € 20,66.
Pattern Book of Renaissance Lace: A Reprint of the 1617 Edition of the Corona Delle Nobili et Virtuose Donne (New York: Dover, 1989)
Purchase a reprint of Vecellio's lace pattern book from Amazon.com.
Pizzi Antichi nei Disegni di Cesare Vecellio (Sugar Co. Edizioni, 1980)
Purchase this volume from AntiQbook for $22.00.
Vecellio's Renaissance Costume Book: All 500 Woodcut Illustrations from the Famous Sixteenth-Century Compendium of World Costume (New York: Dover, 1978)
Purchase a reprint of Vecellio's images from the 1598 edition at Amazon.com.
Il Vestito e la Sua Immagine: Atti del convegno in omaggio a Cesare Vecellio nel quarto centenario della morte (Belluno, 20-22 settembre 2001) from Filo Forme in Italian
Organized by Jeannine Guérin Dalle Mese (Provincia di Belluno Editore: 2002) €20,00. Scroll about two-thirds of the way down the page to find the book.
Fun stuff:
Vecellio's bride and groom images: shirts, buttons, tiles and more
As noted in the link for "Renaissance Figures" above, Candida Martinelli has put together an extraordinary site for Italophiles. Part of her impero includes an Italophile shop selling all kinds of fun items.
Poster print of English Sailor
Who knew? At art.com - as well as other vendors - you can now purchase a poster print of Vecellio's English sailor, measuring 18 x 24 inches, for about $60.00.
Related Information: Biography, Genre, etc.
Artnet.com Artist Biography: Cesare Vecellio
Derived from the comprehensive Grove Dictionary of Art, this site provides detailed information about Vecellio's paintings in addition to his printed works. Be sure to check out the related subject headings at the bottom of the page for more context on the various media he used and the genres in which he is associated.
Artnet.com Styles and Movements: Fashion Plate and Costume Book
Also from the Grove Dictionary of Art, this section discusses the costume book phenomenon, mentioning Vecellio and Christoph Weiditz's Trachtenbuch.
Answers.com: Cesare Vecellio
Derived from the Oxford University Press Art Encyclopedia, this site provides a nice biographical snapshot. It also includes links to places to buy poster prints.
Worldwide Art Resources: Cesare Vecellio
Provides links to various Vecellio resources on the Web.
Alpagocansiglio.it: Cesare Vecellio in Italian
Discusses and shows images from Corona delle nobili e virtuose dame (1617) and Degli habiti antichi et moderni di diverse parti del mondo (1590).
Biblioteca civica, Comune di Belluno
Learn about the history of the public library located in the town of Vecellio's birth. It includes information on the acquisition of a volume with fore-edge painting done by Vecellio.
A Crowning Glory: Hairstyles and Headware in Venice
From The Realm of Venus web site, this section discusses various hairstyles, including those shown on a courtesan in Vecellio's 1590 edition. Also click here for information on the practice of bleaching hair blonde.
Recorder Iconography: Vecellio's Madonna with Child, Saint Giovanni Battista and Saint Girolamo
(If you get the index page, click on "V" under Artists and then scroll down the resulting new page to Cesare Vecellio; use the "find" function on your keyboard or scroll down the page to locate the Vecellio section.)
Compiled by Nicholas S. Lander, this very interesting site provides information on art works featuring the recorder or recorder-like instruments. Lander discusses one of the winged putti in Vecellio's painting (1581) holding a "very slender cylindrical pipe which he holds one-handed."
Introduction to Needlelace
Written by Lady Meadhbh ní Dhubhthaigh (published in Tournaments Illuminated Issue #138, April 2001), this site provides a good introduction to Lace patterns and discusses the importance of Vecellio's Corona delle Nobili et Virtuose Donne (1617).
See also Charlene S. Noto's Annotated Lace Bibliography.
Lesson Plan: Using Vecellio's Image of a Moor to learn about Shakespeare's Othello
Created by teachers Jill Karnop, Elisa Garcia and Damian Bariexca.
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