Codpieces – Renaissance vanity or necessity – Part 2

Best known for having 6 wives in his desperate attempt to have a male heir and for executing a fair amount of people, wives, friends as well as rivals. Another claim to fame was that he possessed the largest collection of tapestries depicting historic, religious and mythical figures, all of whom he identified with; and […]

Codpieces – Renaissance vanity or necessity – Part 1

Codpieces briefly reared their head during the renaissance period and reached their peak in 1550’s. Every man who donned a pair of leggings wore a codpiece, regardless of age, sexual orientation or religious persuasion. For some reason, fashionistas of the 1500’s thought that a man running around in a pair of leggings with a short […]