Recently, I was puttering around on the internet, following increasingly unrelated links. You know, as one does. Anyway, I ran into several images from the Catacombs of Priscilla in Rome. The catacombs date from the 2nd to the 5th centuries, but what caught my attention were a couple of frescoes dated to around the middle of the 3rd century. This is the first one that caught my attention: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fiery_furnace_01.jpg which lead me to quickly find this: http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/11/20/article-2510473-1983CD8200000578-7_634x415.jpg detail: http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/11/20/article-2510473-1983D8F200000578-248_634x402.jpg(It's the sleeves/sleeveheads that are getting me here.)
Now, 3rd century Italian is definitely not my era/area, but... am I the only one whose reaction is HUH?! Early 17th century ain't my period either, but I'd have a lot easier time believing that was what I was looking at than -=3rd=- century. Is anyone particularly familiar with this era/area? I'd love to know more about these garments, or anything even vaguely resembling them during this time period. Yes, these are religious frescoes, making them automatically questionable as costume reference pics. But where would they even come up with the ideas? I haven't managed to see images of every other fresco dating to around the same period in the catacombs, but I've seen many of them; the clothing in them is much more what my not-my-period eyes would have expected. You know, like this: http://catholicphilly.com/media-files/2013/11/CATACOMBS-GOOGLE1.jpg Anyway. Someone please either tell me I'm imagining it. I mean, I don't really think I'm looking at the 3 musketeers caught in the act of time travel; I expect it's probably even possible to kirtle up a tunic into this silhouette. But I'd really like to know more about the clothing of this era/area, and exactly how much they knew about fitting sleeves in Italy in the 3rd century. -E House _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
