Costume of Bianca Maria, Countess of Cellant (Challant), 15th century.

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Costume of Bianca Maria, Countess of Cellant (Challant), 15th century. According to Bandello, this scandalous Italian beauty was beheaded for persuading one lover to kill two other lovers. She wears a gold-embroidered turban and a simar in white silk embroidered with gold and decorated with golden bows. Portrait from a fresco of the beheading of St. Catherine by Bernadino Luini in the church of Monastero Maggiore, Milan. Handcoloured illustration drawn and lithographed by Paul Mercuri with text by Camille Bonnard from Historical Costumes from the 12th to 15th Centuries, Levy Fils, Paris, 1861.

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Size: 4945px × 5970px
Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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