Rysunek siedzącej kobiety z Muzeum Narodowego w Warszawie oraz stroje mieszczan na obrazach Bernarda Bellotta
DRAWING OF A SEATED WOMAN FROM THE NATIONAL MUSEUM IN WARSAW AND BURGHERS’ ATTIRE IN THE PAINTINGS OF BERNARDO BELLOTTO
Author(s): Maria Brodzka-BestrySubject(s): Modern Age, History of Art
Published by: Arx Regia® Wydawnictwo Zamku Królewskiego w Warszawie – Muzeum
Keywords: Bernardo Bellotto; Canaletto; burghers’ fashion in the 18th century; Polish national attire; Elisabetta Pizzorno; caraco; 18th-century craftsmen’s costumes; Bernardo Bellotto’s attire
Summary/Abstract: The article forms part of a project on costume in the paintings of Bernardo Bellotto, undertaken for the 300th anniversary of his birth. Drawing on previously unused printed and visual sources as well as surviving garments, it proposes that a drawing of a seated woman in the National Museum in Warsaw may portray the artist’s wife, Maria Elisabetta Pizzorno. Bellotto’s staffage provides valuable evidence for eighteenth-century bourgeois and popular dress. The study examines the clothing of townspeople, craftsmen, servants, peasants, and washerwomen, including various jackets, coats, bodices, skirts, and headwear. It also considers elements of Polish dress in Bellotto’s Warsaw views and identifies the distinctive uniforms of the city militia and papal guard.
Journal: Kronika Zamkowa. Roczniki
- Issue Year: 78/2025
- Issue No: 12
- Page Range: 181-205
- Page Count: 25
- Language: Polish
