![]() ![]() Thrust: A Spasmodic Pictorial History of the Codpiece in Art (2019) by Michael Glover is published by David Zwirner Books. The point was this: it must never flag in its attentions. An animal bone could have been inserted to ensure the maintenance of shapeliness. Way back when, the codpiece would have been stuffed with horsehair or bombast (a kind of cotton wadding). Its outside might have been made of leather. ![]() There were only miniature adults, and they were always dressed as such.) There were no children in the 16th century. (This we would have recognized well enough, I have no doubt, as soon as we hear the word “children” uttered. These materials are not authentic to the time, of course. In German these terms ( Hose, singular, and Hosen, plural) remained in use and are the. The old plural form of 'hose' was 'hosen'. It takes its name from the word 'cod', middle English for both 'bag' and 'scrotum', and arose because medieval men wore hose essentially, very long socks beneath their doublets, and nothing else in the way of underwear. Hose (clothing) Hose are any of various styles of men's clothing for the legs and lower body, worn from the Middle Ages through the 17th century, when the style fell out of use in favour of breeches and stockings. Kapok is the stuff with which children’s toys are stuffed. The codpiece is buttoned, or tied with strings, to a man's breeches. Kapok! What an oddly jaunty little word that is. What was it made from then? Covered in gorgeous red-dyed damask, it was stabilized (like any fresh-primed time bomb of roaring lustfulness) with cotton ticking, and tightly stuffed (you have to pack it as hard as you can because it needs to maintain its solid-looking and -feeling shapeliness for hours, months, years) with an organic fabric called kapok. Always especially associated with Tudor fashion, the codpiece has in fact a much longer history and there are numerous depictions of its use surviving from. The codpiece revealed its function not as a hubristic spectacle, but as mere decoration!ĭid the member itself ever cower at the rear, one wonders, fearful that the codpiece may have made a promise that actual anatomy might not deliver? Never! Never! There was always too much at stake. But a codpiece, even when inert in a box, is a thousand times the cultural superior of a mere rabbit.Īnd yet, viewed from behind, you notice that there is no point of entry. ![]() When I lifted the lid, to the consternation of the many gathered around (who had been tipped off about the time and place of its imminent appearance), I felt a little like a waggish, thin-mustachioed, pier-end prestidigitator. The Codpiece is a Doom Patrol villain with a massive. Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola), “Pietro Maria Rossi, Count of San Secondo” (1535–1538), oil, 133 x 98 cm (image courtesy David Zwirner Books) ![]()
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