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Noble Moor of Cairo from
De gli habiti antichi, e moderni di diverse parti del mondo libri due,
fatti da Cesare Vecellio & con discorsi da lui dichiatati...
(Of Ancient and Modern Dress of Diverse Parts of the World in Two Books . . .)
by Cesare Vecellio, 1590
MORO NOBILE DE CAIRO
Noble Moor of Cairo
Back to African, Mamluk and Arabian Costume and Soldiers in De gli habiti antichi, e moderni di diverse parti del mondo libri due by Cesare Vecellio.
By January of 1517, the Ottomans had taken control of Cairo. Vecellio seemed to mark this transition of power in his description of the Moorish Nobleman of Cairo’s silk turban, which he described as being in the Turkish style.40
40 Vecellio, 1598, f. 424r.
Vecellio extracted some of his residents of Cairo, including the Moorish Nobleman of Cairo (fig. 13), Woman of Cairo (fig. 14), and the Christian Indian in Cairo (fig. 16)
from Gentile Bellini’s St. Mark Preaching in Alexandria painted for the albergo of the Scuola Grande di San Marco. (fig. 32).74
74 The identification of this source for Vecellio's Egyptian costumes was made by Jeanine Guérin dalle Mese, L'occhio di Cesare Vecellio: abiti e costumi esotici nel '500 (Alessandria, 1998) 131.
Source: pp. 15-16 & 26, African Costume for Artists: The Woodcuts in Book X of Habiti antichi et moderni di tutto il mondo, 1598 by Laura Renee Herrmann
