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Renaissance Fashions (Dover Fashion Coloring Book)

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This product offers a good start for some to learn about Renaissance fashion styles. Unfortunately, it does not provide much in a way of understanding that Europe during the Renaissance was more then just Italy, France, Spain or the German principalities. It would be nice to give a broader spectrum of fashion styles like in the Kingdom of Hungary which was a leading power in Europe during the Renaissance or Poland. How about Europe's main enemy the Ottoman Empire? As I have titled my review, it is a good start, but unfinished.

I just purchased these Dover COloring Books for my mother and she loves them. The detail is out of this world and the variety of colors you can use are only limited by your inagination. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

This is one of my favorite coloring books illustrated by Tom Tierney, along with Victorian Fashions. There are only one or two figures per page, allowing for a lot of detail in the historically accurate portraits. The patterned gowns are especially fun to color, with intricate designs on the fabrics that invite all kinds of rich colors.

I bought this book for costume ideas. The pictures are lovely, but unfortunately there is no documentation or sources for the illustrations. I wrote the author a letter over a year ago asking for any documentation but never received a reply. I was able to find sources for the Italian fashions book by looking at paintings myself but not for this book.