The answer to the statement is simply nope, not a Venetian. Mantuan! In the style of Isabella d'Este Gonzaga. Short Answer: I have always been inspired by the life and writings of Isabella d'Este, the first lady of the Renaissance. (I will happily gush about her awesomeness in a later post.) Longer Answer: When I first began making clothes in the SCA, I imagine that I did what most people do... I saw something that I liked and I attempted to make or imitate it regardless of how it connected to my persona. My mind was a jumble of what to do and how to do it, with hundreds of portraits and few sewing resources for the Italian Renaissance. I explored. “Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map.” |
Baronessa Franca DonatoVandy Pacetti-Donelson is a milliner, costumer, illuminator and calligrapher, and researcher who is interested in all that is the Italian Renaissance. A true Florida Native originally from Saint Augustine, she now calls Daphne, Alabama her home. Vandy is known in the Society for Creative Anachronism as Baronessa Franca Donato, OL and resides in the Barony of the Osprey in the Kingdom of Merides. Archives
March 2021
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