Medieval and Renaissance Costumes for Your Next Themed Party

When most people think of medieval and Renaissance costumes, they think of marvelously beautiful dresses worn at sumptuous balls, and the long flowing dresses normally associated with ladies-in-waiting to the Queens of Europe. The think of the regal and the royal, the great kings and queens and the aristocracy of Europe.

However, it was not all like that, and most do not really understand that the Renaissance period in Italy took a long time to sweep to the rest of Europe. Italy had its day in the classical eras of Michelangelo Buonarroti, who was commissioned by Pope Julius II to repaint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel that took from 1508 to 1512 to complete. That occurred during the true Renaissance period.

It was also the period of Leonardo Da Vinci and Raphael, and while you are unlikely to be able to afford to purchase any work by any of the great Renaissance painters, you will be able to purchase the clothing that may have been worn by them. Don’t get excited - not the actual garb, of course, but a reproduction of it. The real things have rotted away many centuries ago. However, there is a lot of medieval and renaissance reproduction costume and clothing available online these days. Get the right website, and you will be in a dreamland.



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