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History
of Fashion in Ancient Africa and Beyond The tour of the
museum began with a small section about the
Pharaohs' Egypt, with jewels, decoration tools and
a series of important bas-reliefs and stone
sculptures depicting hairstyles and clothing. The
next section hosts some findings of archaic and
Hellenistic age coming from Cyprus and never
publicly displayed before. The section
dedicated to Greece began with the ancient Greek
statue of the Kouros Milani, with its elaborate
braided hair falling on the back, according to the
fashion of the aristocratic elite of the age, and
some samples of Greek clothing from Centuries VI to
V bC. The first
documents related to Etruria are male and female
funerary outfits of the Century VII bC of Casale
Marittimo, which still hosts the arrangement of
jewels for cloth decoration and various instruments
for the weaving of clothes (spindles, forks,
looms). The second group of Etruscan items concerns
the next period, where Eastern influences are more
and more visible, both in clothes and in
hairstyles. Along with the clothes is displayed a
series of gold works for the decoration of clothes
(buckles, belts, plates) and for personal
decorations (hair brooches, braid clips, earrings,
necklaces armillae) and a section dedicated to
cosmetics. The third part
concerns the evolution of fashion from Century V bC
to Hellenism. A series of earrings, rings and
Hellenistic necklaces complete the Etruscan section
and begin the Roman one with a series of busts and
female heads' portraits in marble and bronze with
money and cameos, important documents depicting the
evolution of the women's hairstyles in the Imperial
families. The last section
is the Coptic and Roman Egypt (Century IV to VI)
with the exhibition of clothes for children (robes
and bonnets), along with a never-before-seen wooden
sarcophagus decorated with the picture of the
deceased, dressed with a Roman robe, painted at the
bottom of the Sarcophagus. The sarcophagus will be
decorated with prized polychrome Coptic clothes in
linen and wool. You can book now
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Fashion
Costume Beauty in Ancient Times is an exhibition of
almost four hundred works, for the most part coming
from the rich collection of the National
Archaeological Museum of Florence, which took place
in 2004.