Before the Renaissance — Costume & Identity Draft, Florence

A character-focused design sheet grounded in pre-Renaissance Florentine society.
Left side: a black-clad figure—part noble, part observer—turns back within an archway, watching those who pass.
Right side: seven characters (partially rendered) stand in coded clothing—militia, tradesfolk, aristocratic women—each designed to express identity via silhouette, fabric layering, and functionality.

Pencil drafts of adjacent architecture are interwoven with textile logic.

This concept is thematically linked to a vertical two-frame illustration (in progress) of Piero da Vinci, da Vinci’s father, placed between civic Florence and private noble gardens.

The drawing poses a central question:
What does one wear to be seen by history—and what does one wear to disappear from it?