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Clothing in ancient Rome generally comprised a short-sleeved or sleeveless, knee-length tunic for men and boys, and a longer, usually sleeved tunic for women and girls. On formal occasions, adult male citizens could wear a woolen toga , draped over their tunic, and married citizen women wore a woolen mantle, known as a palla , over a stola , a ...
Statue of the Emperor Tiberius showing a draped toga of the 1st century AD. The toga (/ ˈ t oʊ ɡ ə /, Classical Latin: [ˈt̪ɔ.ɡa]), a distinctive garment of Ancient Rome, was a roughly semicircular cloth, between 12 and 20 feet (3.7 and 6.1 m) in length, draped over the shoulders and around the body.
It was similar in form to the palla, which had been worn by respectable Roman women since the mid-Republican era. [1] It was a rectangular length of cloth, [2] as was the himation in ancient Greece. It was usually made from wool [3] or flax, but for the higher classes it could be made of silk with the use of gold threads [4] and embroideries.
Statue of Livia Drusilla wearing a stola and palla.. The palla was an elegant cloak or mantle that was wrapped around the body. It was worn outside the house by (affluent) Roman women.
At present, only the pope, metropolitan archbishops within their archdiocese, and the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem wear the pallium. Under the 1917 Code of Canon Law, a metropolitan had to receive the pallium before exercising his office in his ecclesiastical province, even if he was previously metropolitan elsewhere, but these restrictions were absent in the revised 1983 Code of Canon Law. [4]
Palazzo Barberini, Rome The Vestal Virgin Tuccia ( Italian : La Vestale Tuccia ) or Veiled Woman ( Italian : La Velata ) is a marble sculpture created in 1743 by Antonio Corradini , a Venetian Rococo sculptor known for his illusory depictions of female allegorical figures covered with veils that reveal the fine details of the forms beneath.
Scraps of wool fabric from the Bronze Age and Iron Age have been found in the salt mines of Hallstatt Austria. The fabric scraps were residuals of rags used in the mines. The rags, in turn were scraps from worn out garments. The Bronze age fabrics are relatively coarse in part due to the coarse wool available from the sheep at the time.
Later, in medieval times, a fillet was a type of headband worn by unmarried women, usually with a wimple or barbette. [3] This is indicated in the sign language of some monks (who took oaths of silence), wherein a sweeping motion across the brow, in the shape of a fillet, indicated an unmarried woman.