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Title: The table book of art; a history of art in all countries and ages
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Sandhurst, Phillip T
Subjects: Painting -- History
Publisher: N.Y., Worthington
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ality never wascostume better suited for a painter like Van Dyck. The hair in the men was allowedto flow to the shoulders or gathered in a love knot, while the whiskers and beardformed a point. In the women the hair was crisped in curls round the face. Theruff in men and women had yielded to the broad, rich, falling collar, with deepscallops of point lace. Vest and cloak were of the richest velvet or satin, or else, onthe breaking out of the civil war, men appeared in armour. The mans hat was broadand flapping, usually turned up at one side, and having an ostrich feather in the band;his long wide boots were of Spanish leather, and he wore gauntlet gloves, and richruffles at his wrists. The women wore hoods and mantles, short bodices, ampletrains, and wide sleeves terminating in loose ruffles at the elbow, which left half of thearm bare. Pearl necklaces and bracelets, round feather fans, and knots of flowers,were the almost universal ornaments of women. Another ornament of both men and
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