Erasmus Gallery

Italian noble youth fashions from the late 15th century

Italian noble youth fashions from the late 15th century. They wear doublet and hose with many cutout panels, slits and slashes. From an oil painting by Bernardo Pinturicchio. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Alteneck's Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century, Frankfurt, 1889. Illustration by Dr. Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Alteneck, lithographed by C. Regnier. Dr. Hefner-Alteneck (1811 - 1903) was a German museum curator, archaeologist, art historian, illustrator and etcher

© Florilegius

Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466/1469-1536). Dutch huma

Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (sometimes known as Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam) (1466/1469-1536). Dutch Renaissance humanist and a Catholic Christian theologian. Ratione Conscribendi Epistles. First page. Edition printed in Basel in 1522

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Beatus Rhenanus

BILD AUS RHEINAU Alsatian humanist and printer's editor - he superintended the printing of Erasmus's works Date: 1485 - 1547

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