Is there a link between fashion and art? We are surely not experts but, by looking at iconography from ancient times to modern day, it appears evident how clothes are important characters, or even protagonists of the work of many artists. Henri Matisse dedicates a painting to a folkloristic blouse, Romanian Blouse; Johannes Vermeer, instead, focuses on a pearl earring making us dream with a mysterious portrait (unknown until a couple of decades ago) in which the protagonist hides her hair under a blue turban. But there are plenty of examples; from the wonderful blooming dress covering Flora, the Roman Goddess of flowering plants portrayed by Botticelli in the popular Primavera as a woman spreading the blooms she carries in her lap, to the golden dress that almost becomes part of the background in the famous portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer by Gustav Klimt, in which what the protagonist wears transforms into a symbol of the magical and absolute nature of the ornament. We selected the paintings that most impressed us for the outfits of the women portrayed in them. What are your 3 favorite ones?
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- La Blouse Roumaine – Henry Matisse
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- Alexandra Feodorovna – Franz Xaver Winterhalter
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- Along The Seine – Maurice Prendergast
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- A Beauty With A Face Brush – Utagawa Kunioshi
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- A Lady Standing at a Virginal – Johannes Vermeer
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- A dream – Pablo Picasso
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- A girl in an armchair – James Tissot
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- A Souvenir – John William Godward
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- Adele Bloch-Bauer I – Gustav Klimt
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- Anfisa – Vasily Surikov
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- Antea – Parmigianino
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- Antonietta Tarsis Basilico – Francesco Hayez
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- At the Moulin Rouge, The Dance – Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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- Edith Schiele – Egon Schiele
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- Dance Lessons – Edgar Degas
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- Frederike Beer – Egon Schiele
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- Giovannina and Amacilia – Karl Bryullov
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- Fritza Riedler – Gustav Klimt
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- Gypsy Woman with a Baby – Amedeo Modigliani
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- La primavera – Sandro Botticelli
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- Portrait of Cecilia Gallerani (Lady with the Ermine), about 1488
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- Ophelia – John William Waterhouse
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- Olga in a armchair – Pablo Picasso
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- Portrait of Marie Antoinette – Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
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- Portrait of Fanny – William Holman Hunt
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- Portrait of the Duchess of La Salle – Tamara de Lempicka
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- Portrait of Young Woman with Unicorn – Raffaello
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- Young Lady With Gloves – Tamara de Lempicka
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- Sonja Knips – Gustav Klimt
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- The First Lady – Fernando Botero
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- The Girl With A Pearl Earring – Johannes Vermeer
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- The unwelcome companion – John William Waterhouse
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- The two sisters – Théodore Chassériau
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- Woman with a Parrot – Édouard Manet
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- The Two Fridas – Frida Kahlo
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- Tahitian Women On The Beach – Paul Gauguin