16-08-2017, 08:46 PM
If it's a beard, then it's a big bushy life long one. The 15th century beard fashion seems to have been for short beards or clean shaven. Beards were worn on pilgramiges and crusades (you promised not to shave until you completed the task). They were also linked to the military classes.
Jews of course were often depicted with their beards.
But the stylistic imagery of an elderly bewiskered man really brings to mind either a Sage or a personage of antiquity. It doesn't seem to fit with the 15th century fashion - flowing beards started to come into fashion in the next century, during the Renaissance.
Jews of course were often depicted with their beards.
But the stylistic imagery of an elderly bewiskered man really brings to mind either a Sage or a personage of antiquity. It doesn't seem to fit with the 15th century fashion - flowing beards started to come into fashion in the next century, during the Renaissance.