Mascarades
Mascarades is a late sixteenth-century print series by Jean Jacques Boissard, published in 1597 with the place of printing uncertain, probably Strasbourg, and aimed at artists and collectors interested in costume. Its engravings show pairs and trios of figures in elaborate fashionable and foreign dress, each plate with a Latin verse beneath, and a designer could draw on their layered skirts, tall headdresses, and flowing mantles for period costume studies.
