Fashion history in female portraits

While studying the history of fashion, it is very important to visit museums, exhibitions and galleries, where you can contemplate paintings by artists of previous eras. For example, you can get acquainted with the history of fashion at the end of the 16th and beginning of the 17th centuries, for the most part, only through the paintings of artists, because very few real clothes, shoes and accessories of those years have survived. Photography was invented many years later, so we can visually touch that era through painting.

Let's take a look at paintings by artist Robert Peake the Elder (Robert Peake). This English portrait painter worked during the late reign of Queen Elizabeth I and during the reign of James I. Why is he called the elder? In order not to get confused, because his son and grandson also became artists.

Thanks to the artist's portraits, we can see what Queen Elizabeth I and other women of that era looked like.

I wonder how the descendants will judge our time, looking at paintings by artists of the XXI century? Although we are in a better position in this regard, now there are a lot of digital formats for storing any information, including Photo and video, so it is quite possible that descendants will not take into account the artists of the 21st century when they study the history of modern fashion.

The history of fashion in the late 16th and early 17th centuries in portraits of women.