Tapestry fragment: Woman's head
- Published/Created:
- ca. 200-400
- Date Depicted:
- 1975
8000 BC - 499 AD - Materials:
- wool
- Notes:
- Long, loose curls held in place by a diadem.
- Abstract:
- In a break from Roman styles, Early Christian women dress the hair simply. Older women part hair and pull it into a bun. For unmarried girls hair is long and loose. Diadems and circlets are small. The bowl cut remains the basic hairstyle for men. Beards and mustaches reappear for the first time since the classical period in Greece.
- Topics:
- Textiles -- Early Christian -- 3rd century -- (YVRC)
Textiles -- Early Christian -- 4th century -- (YVRC) - Culture:
- Early Christian
- Accession Number:
- 4388-160
- Genre:
- furnishings: wall hangings: tapestries (AAT)
- Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Furnishings & Decorative Arts
- Rights:
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Access Restrictions:
- Yale Community Only
- Source Creator:
- Button, Jeanne and Sbarge, Stephen
- Source Title:
- History of Costume, In Slides, Notes and Commentaries: Volume 1
- Source Created:
- New York, NY
Theatre Arts Slide Presentations
1975 - Call Number:
- GT513 +B87 1 (LC)
- Yale Collection:
- Visual Resources Collection
- Digital Collection:
- Visual Resources Collection
- Original Repository:
- Detroit, MI: Detroit Institute of Arts
- OID:
- 10542856
- PID:
- digcoll:1835721