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Lady of Cairo from
De gli habiti antichi, e moderni di diverse parti del mondo libri due,
fatti da Cesare Vecellio & con discorsi da lui dichiatati...
(Of Ancient and Modern Dress of Diverse Parts of the World in Two Books . . .)
by Cesare Vecellio, 1590
DONNA DEL CAIRO
Lady of Cairo
Back to African, Mamluk and Arabian Costume and Soldiers in De gli habiti antichi, e moderni di diverse parti del mondo libri due by Cesare Vecellio.
Vecellio extracted some of his residents of Cairo, including the Moorish Nobleman of Cairo (fig. 13), Woman of Cairo (fig. 14), and the Christian Indian in Cairo (fig. 16)
from Gentile Bellini’s St. Mark Preaching in Alexandria painted for the albergo of the Scuola Grande di San Marco. (fig. 32).74
74 The identification of this source for Vecellio's Egyptian costumes was made by Jeanine Guérin dalle Mese, L'occhio di Cesare Vecellio: abiti e costumi esotici nel '500 (Alessandria, 1998) 131.
Source: p. 26, African Costume for Artists: The Woodcuts in Book X of Habiti antichi et moderni di tutto il mondo, 1598 by Laura Renee Herrmann