Elizabethan era aesthetic

Elizabeth I by William Scrots, c. 1546

With her huge, dramatic collars, ghostly pallor and flaming curls of red hair, Queen Elizabeth I’s image is etched in royal history. Trained from a young age to see power and strength in public image, she cultivated a persona that was both pure and powerful. Unwed and without children, she portrayed herself as the chase,...

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While not common, wattle and daub houses did not have to be whitewashed. Wattle and daub were a fairly inexpensive way to build homes from the early Middle Ages to the Renaissance. The walls between the large timbers of a structure were made of wattle (sticks woven in a loose pattern) and daub (a mixture of mud, straw and animal manure that was packed onto the wattle) then covered in plaster. The upper story of the house to the right is a traditional style while those to the left have more…

Elizabethan and Tudor Make-Up: The use of cosmetics was not popular during the early part of the Tudor period, the use of perfumes and lotions however was.