Thursday, September 25, 2025

1.1.5. The Art of Renaissance Hairstyle, Makeup / ...a little history / The Encyclopedia of Beauty from Constantine.


After Barbarossa, at time of pilgrimage against Saladin, drowned in a river from a broken heart, the influence of obscurantism in the Roman/Byzantine Empire on art, fashion and social relations significantly diminished. but his rule in Italy and influence on European royal families led to the outbreak of the Roman Catholic Inquisition until the 19th century / Napoleonic wars/.
But even during the obscurantism of the Catholic Inquisition, in the 14th century, a new style emerged in Catalonia – the Renaissance, in which hairstyles with a round silhouette were the most popular.
In the 16th century, the Spanish style spread widely across Europe, and hairstyles, cosmetics, and attitudes towards makeup also changed.
 Men's began to be  hair cut little short and combed from the forehead upwards.
Renaissance women paid great attention to their hairstyles, hair is no longer hidden under a headdress and began makeup. Very popular was be Greek and Roman hairstyles: bizantine knot (braid).


Married women began to braid their hair, twisting it into various intricate shapes. The strands of hair did curled, bleached. The hairstyle is typical: curly hair on both sides is twisted into ponytails, but there were also very original hairstyles.



In the 16th century, French women wore tall, intricate hairstyles. They used a frames and a curlers to create them, shaping their hair into hearts, cones, and bats, and powdering hair.


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The silhouette of a man's hairstyle was the same regardless of social status persons. It were made from long and curly hair. Young people wore their hair in tails or wore it loose. Popular shoulder-length haircut with bangs.


High collars have come into fashion that's why haircuts are getting even shorter.


Women's hairstyles of this century period in different European countries differ, however, typical for all regions of Europe were loose long hair or hair gathered into a bun at the back of the head and all hairstyles have graceful lines, executed in different ways using imagination. Hairstyles were created by braiding and styling the hair on the head in various ways, while the curled hair was left loose.

These hairstyles require very thick hair, so ladies to their hair began adding strands. And in Venice vere in fashion blondes and women sat in the sun for long periods of time, soaking their hair in various liquids to make it a little lighter. For convenience in this exercise, they make wide-brimmed straw hats without a bottom that covered their faces and placed their hair on them.

Renaissance jewelry, makeup and cosmetics.
Rubies, sapphires and emeralds are in fashion. During this era, blond hair, black eyebrows and fair skin were fashionable and women used cosmetics to whiten their skin.






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