clavus/clavi
Decorative vertical stripes that ran over the shoulder on the front and back of a Late Roman or Byzantine tunic.
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Author: Emily Omesi
1750 – Jean-Marc Nattier, Portrait of a Young Woman
Jean-Marc Nattier, an acclaimed 18th-century portraitist, was known for his mythological style, painting women in imagined costume that was only loosely based on fashionable trends, as is true in his 1750/60 Portrait of a Woman.
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