A description of the category from the Arts and Sciences Rules: Division VII: Society Arts Persona Displays (update Change in category) · Includes a display of multiple items organized around the entrant’s SCA persona. The display can be “A day in the life…” type displays or more specific displays, such as a 14th century archer’s campaign kit or a 16th century lady’s still room. Individual items contained within the larger entry can include previous Art/Sci entries. Entries should emphasize historically accurate methods and materials. Entries may be European or non-European and pre 1650 CE in origin. I have spent a great deal of time looking at manuscripts to study for illumination and began to notice a pattern in the styling of banquets. It is an ambition of mine to host a banquet in proper Italian style, of course. This sort of project could take a great deal of time and several resources from a variety of sources. What can I say? Sounds like fun. Visual Resources
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Division VII: Society Arts Persona Displays · Includes a display of multiple items organized around the entrant’s SCA persona. The display can be “A day in the life…” type displays or more specific displays, such as a 14th century archer’s campaign kit or a 16th century lady’s still room. Individual items contained within the larger entry can include previous Art/Sci entries. Entries should emphasize historically accurate methods and materials. Entries may be European or non-European and pre 1650 CE in origin. Visual Resources
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Written ResourcesQuestion: Who owned fashion dolls? Fashion Dolls in Inventories 1. Fourteen dolls are listed in the 1589 inventory of Catherine de’ Medici’s possessions. One doll is described as “small,” and one doll is described as “a lady.” Some were cataloged by clothing: six were dressed in black, one in white, and one in mourning. The remaining dolls were simply listed as dolls. From: Bonnaffe, E. (1874). Inventaire des meubles de Catherine de Medcis en 1589: mobilier, tableaux, objets d’art, manuscrits. Paris, France. --------------------------------------- 2. In the inventory of Queen Juana of Spain’s possessions, two dolls with elaborate dresses and fitted sleeves under outer garments lined with fur are listed. From: Anderson, R.M. (1979). Hispanic Costume, 1480-1530. New York. --------------------------------------- Question: What is the Purpose of Fashion Dolls and Where to Obtain Them? 1. Letter to Isabella d’Este from her son, Federico Gonzaga, on behalf of Francois Ier 5. Dated 19 November 1515, defining the purpose of fashion dolls, it states: “My Illustrious and Exalted Lady, Most Revered Mother and Lady, Monsignor de Moretta has told me that the King wishes My Lady to send him a doll dressed in the fashions that you wear with under gowns, sleeves, underdresses, overdresses, and coats, and headdresses, and hairstyles that you wear; sending various headdress styles would better satisfy his Majesty, for he intends to have some of these garments made to give to the ladies of his court. Therefore, would you be so kind to send this and as soon as possible.” Original text: Ill. Ma et Ex. Ma signora mia matre et signor observandissima. Monsignor de Moretta me ha detto ch’el Re desidera che Vostra Signoria li mandi una puva vestita all fogia che va lei de camisa, di maniche, de veste di sotto, et di sopra, et de abiliamenti, et aconciatura de testa, et deli capili, come la porta; mandando perho varie fogie di acconciatura di testa. Vostra signoria satisfara melio perche Sua Maesta designi far fare alcuni de quelli habiti per donar a Donne in Franza. Quella adunche serra contenta mandarla et piu presto sia possible. Luzio and Renier, 1896a, 466, quoted only the passage referring to the doll and its wardrobe. (This book is written in Italian…I translated the letter for myself.) ------------------------------------------------- 2. Isabella d’Este also received a request for a doll from her younger son, Ferrante, then attached to Charles V’s court: “I am troubled by some of the queen’s ladies-in-waiting to have a doll sent to them from Italy dressed entirely in the manner you attire yourselves there. For this reason, I implore Your Excellency to commission and send such a doll, with some other accessories for women, such as headdresses, to give to the Lady Donna Magdalena Manricha, one of the ladies of the aforementioned queen.” Original text: “Io sono importunate d’alchune damiselle de la Sinora Regina che gli fazzi venire de Italia una puva vestita in tito del modo se accostuma li. Siche supplico Vostra Excellentia che commetta ne sia mandata una con qualch’ altra gentilezza da donne, come sono accunciature da testa per dare alla Signora Donna Magdalena Manricha, una dele donzelle della prefata Signora Regina.” Tamalio, R. (1994). Ferrante Gonzaga alla corte spagnola di Carlo V: nel carteggio private con Mantova (1515-1517). Paris, France. (This letter was transcribed and published in English by this author.) --------------------------------- 3. Letter from Henry IV of France to Marie de Medici.... “You desire patterns of our fashions in dress,” wrote Henry IV of France in May 1600 to Marie de Medici. “I send you therefore some model dolls.” *****This has been all over internet, but no one who quotes it describes the location of the original source, which may mean that it is a Victorian rumor. Regardless, I am currently seeking the source******* ----------------------------------- 4. Payment record from the accounts of Charles VI of France. In 1396, Robert de Varennes, embroiderer and chamber valet to Isabeau de Baviere, received 496 livres 16 sols for “dolls and their wardrobes for the Queen of England.” Laborde, Leon de. (1872). Glossaire francais du moyen age, a l’usage de l’archeologue et l’amateur des arts; precede de l’inventaire des bijoux de Louis, duc d’Anjou, dresse vers 1360. Paris, France. p.465: “poupees et mainages d’icelle pour la royne d’Angleterre.” ---------------------------------- 5. Francois Ier’s future mother-in-law, Anne de Bretagne, ordered “a large doll to send to the Queen of Spain.” Laborde, Leon de. (1872). Glossaire francais du moyen age, a l’usage de l’archeologue et l’amateur des arts; precede de l’inventaire des bijoux de Louis, duc d’Anjou, dresse vers 1360. Paris, France. p. 465: “1496…Pour avior fait faire et refaire par 2 fois, par l’ordonnance et commandement d’icelle dame (la Royne) une grande poupee pour envoyer a la Royne d’Espagne.” Question: How does one instruct children in the art of clothing?
“In 1492, King Fernando of Spain sent a Christmas present to his young daughters in Barcelona of three dolls dressed in Valencian fashions. In addition to wearing chemises, undershirts, and velvet and cebti (Spanish silk) dresses, the dolls were trimmed in trancats, a type of braid-casing favored in Valencia.” From: Anderson, R.M. (1979). Hispanic Costume, 1480-1530. New York. |
Project PlanningIn the SCA, we participate in Arts and Sciences Fairs to explore the wonderful arts of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The first questions becomes, "Where does one start?" This page is dedicated to my planning of future projects for fairs. Categories
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