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| Giuliano Bugiardini Portrait of a Florentine Lady (detail) ca. 1515-25 oil on canvas Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon |
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| Francesco Salviati The Annunciation (detail) ca. 1533 oil on panel Chiesa di San Francesco a Ripa Grande, Rome |
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| Sandro Botticelli Personification of Fortitude (detail) 1470 tempera on panel Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence |
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| Filippino Lippi St Sebastian with St John the Baptist and St Francis (detail) 1502 tempera on panel Palazzo Bianco, Genoa |
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| Parmigianino Virgin and Child with Saints (detail) 1529 oil on panel Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna |
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| Guido Reni Massacre of the Innocents (detail) 1611 oil on canvas Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna |
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| Filippo Lippi Coronation of the Virgin (detail) 1439-47 tempera on panel Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence |
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| Andrea del Sarto Pietà with Saints (detail) ca. 1523-24 oil on panel Palazzo Pitti, Florence |
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| Ludovico Carracci The Transfiguration (detail) 1595 oil on canvas Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna |
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| Lorenzo Sabatini Assumption of the Virgin (detail) ca. 1569-70 oil on panel Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna |
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| Santi di Tito The Resurrection (detail) ca. 1574 oil on panel Basilica di Santa Croce, Florence |
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| Giorgio Vasari Christ in the House of Martha and Mary (detail) 1540 oil on panel Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna |
"Clothing was continually in motion from around 1300 to 1600. It moved from body to body in the form of gifts and payments. It separated into discrete parts that circulated and recirculated after the death of a person; clothing was altered and realtered for individual family members and for individuals in larger networks that extended beyond the family. Items of clothing helped to pay debts and assisted individuals who lacked cash yet needed to acquire essential resources. . . . In fact, since clothing had evolved into an elaborate assemblage of parts that mixed, matched, and constituted a whole, it was easier to take garments apart and sell them in portions if the occasion arose. Sleeves, bodice, doublet, partlet, shirt, cape, undergown, head covering, and other clothing parts acted as material and symbolic currency whose circulation could make and unmake the clothed subject. These detachable parts could move from body to body; they served as gifts, donations and bequests; and they could be rented, if the necessity arose, from secondhand clothing dealers."
– Margaret F. Rosenthal, Cultures of Clothing in Later Medieval and Early Modern Europe, published in Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Fall, 2009
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| Girolamo dai Libri Virgin and Child Enthroned with St Joseph and the Archangel Raphael (detail) (lettering across torso rendered in pearls) 1530 oil on panel Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona |
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| Innocenzo da Imola Virgin and Child in Glory with St Peter, St Michael Archangel and St Benedict (detail) ca. 1517-22 oil on panel Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna |
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| Prospero Fontana Adoration of the Magi (detail) (cameos as ornamental clasps) ca. 1569 oil on panel Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna |
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| Paolo Veronese Feast in the House of Levi (detail) 1573 oil on canvas Gallerie dell' Accademia, Venice |