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Gallery of Beauties The Nymphenburg Palace seen from its park. The Gallery of Beauties (German: Schönheitengalerie) is a collection of 38 portraits of the most beautiful women from the nobility and bourgeoisie of Munich, Germany, gathered by King Ludwig I of Bavaria in the south pavilion of his Nymphenburg Palace. [1]
Silent Sisterhood: Middle Class Women in the Victorian Household. (Carnegie Mellon UP, 1975). DeLamont, Sara, and Lorna Duffin, eds. The Nineteenth-Century Woman: Her Cultural and Physical Worlds (1978). Doughan, David, and Peter Gordon. Dictionary of British Women's Organisations, 1825-1960 (Routledge, 2014). Flanders, Judith.
1837 dress. During the start of Queen Victoria's reign in 1837, the ideal shape of the Victorian woman was a long slim torso emphasised by wide hips. To achieve a low and slim waist, corsets were tightly laced and extended over the abdomen and down towards the hips. [4]
It has more than 1.5 million members and an endless archive of beautiful and fascinating content that conjures up all sorts of warm, fuzzy, nostalgic feelings. ... (from metal plates in the 1800s ...
In the early 1800s, modesty was key and women wore 'bathing gowns' which were closer to gowns than anything easy to swim in. Women weren't the only ones keeping themselves covered up; men could be ...
"Southern belle" (from French belle 'beautiful') is a colloquialism for a debutante or other fashionable young woman in the planter class of the Antebellum South, particularly as a romantic counterpart to the Southern gentleman. [1]
In the early 1800s, women wore thin gauzy outer dresses while men adopted trousers and overcoats. Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck and his family, 1801–02, by Pierre-Paul Prud'hon Madame Raymond de Verninac by Jacques-Louis David, with clothes and chair in Directoire style.
In 1856 The New York Times published a report entitled "Horrible Traffic in Circassian Women – Infanticide in Turkey", asserting that a consequence of the Russian conquest of the Caucasus was an excess of beautiful Circassian women on the Constantinople slave market, and that this was causing prices of slaves in general to plummet. [44]