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Turkish costumes
Jean Jacques Boissard1581
Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Berlin, Germany
In the early modern period, exploratory voyages and transnational trade relations sparked interest in the clothing of different cultures. Beginning in 1560, the first costume books were published, a genre that would soon become extremely popular. Here, the aim was to represent pictorially the clothing of different peoples and classes, allowing the reader to experience new worlds by way of their inhabitants.
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Details
- Title: Turkish costumes
- Creator: Jean Jacques Boissard
- Date Published: 1581
- Location Created: Mecheln
- Physical Dimensions: 28 x 34.5 cm
- Type: Copperplate engraving, coloured
- Rights: © Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz / Photo: Dietmar Katz
- External Link: Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
- Bibliographic references: Habitus variarum orbis gentium. Habitz de nations estra[n]ges. Trachten mancherley Völcker des Erdskreyß
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