16C Women in Green - Spring is Near

Lucas Cranach the Elder (c 1472-1553) Saint Genevieve (Detail)

This Spring I have noticed lots of clothing in a variety of shades of green. Wonder if designers are attracted to green as the leaves burst into bloom.

 1520 A Blonde Woman by Jacopo Vecchio

 1530 Bartolomeo Veneto Lady in a Green Dress

 1530 Peter de Kempeneer Portrait of a Lady from Ferrara, Italy

1530s Lady Playing a Lute by Bartolomeo Veneto 

1536 Titian Tiziano Vercelli (Italian painter, 1488-1576) Portrait of a Young Woman

 1540 Unknown Artist Portrait of a Florentine Noblewoman

1555 Titian Tiziano Vercelli (Italian painter, 1488-1556) Portrait of a Lady

 1560-65 Titian Tiziano Vercelli (Italian painter, 1488-1576) Titian's Daughter Lavinia

1560s Alessandro Allori Portrait of Eleonora da Toledo

1580s Lavinia Fonatna (1552-1614) Portrait of Laura Gonzaga in Green