Bust of a woman from the late 15th century. She wears German fashion of the era, and a red velvet turban, decorated with a golden angel brooch and tied with white ribbon. Detail from an oil painting showing the preacher Saint John of Capistrano. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Alteneck's Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century, Frankfurt, 1889. Illustration by Dr. Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Alteneck, lithographed by I. M. Dr. Hefner-Alteneck (1811 - 1903) was a German museum curator, archaeologist, art historian, illustrator and etcher.

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