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Codpieces and peascods
From Nights 4 June 2015
Portrait of marquis Pier Maria Rossi. circa 1530 Parmigianino (1503–1540)
Carlos V with a Hound 1533 by Titian
Francesco Terzio, after 1557. Francesco Terzi (1523–1591)
Portrait of John Farnham, Gentleman-Pensioner to Elizabeth I of England. 1563
Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. circe 1564.
Portrait of Antonio Navagero (1565), oil on canvas, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, by Giovanni Battista Moroni.
Archduke Rudolf, the later Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II. of Austria, son of Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II. of Austria and Infanta Maria of Spain, 1567 He is wearing pumpkin hose (pluderhose) with a codpiece.
Portrait of Henry VIII of England after the Whitehall mural by Hans Holbein the Younger. c. 1567.
The Three Soldiers by Pieter Brueghel the Elder. 1568.
Charles, Archduke of Austria, wearing a peascod bellied doublet in 1569
Martin Frobisher by Ketel circa 1577. Frobisher wears a jerkin closed only at the neck over a peascod-bellied doublet.
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