This page focuses on chopines from the 16th century through the first part of the 17th century.

For a related form of footwear worn in northern Europe, see the pattens linkspage; for related footwear worn throughout Europe and the American colonies in the 18th century, see the pattens, clogs, and overshoes over in the 18th Century Notebook section of the website.

See also These Chopines Weren't Made for Walking, Shoe-History Repeats Itself, Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: The Chopine, Venetian Chopines, and Research and Construction of Chopines, Pantoufles, Zoccoli, Shoes, Boots, and Other Raised and High Heels.

• Met 2009.300.1494a,b, c. 1550-1650
• Bata Shoe Museum, worn sometime between 1580 and 1620
• MFA 44.552, 1580s
• MFA 44.551, 1580s
• V&A T.419&A-1913, c. 1580-1620
• Met 2009.300.1408, c. 1590-1610
• Met 1973.114.4a,b, 1600
• MFA 44.523a-b, 1600
• MFA 44.558, c. 1600
• V&A T.48&A-1914, c. 1600
• V&A 929&A-1901, c. 1600
• MFA 44.557, 17th century
• MFA 44.555, c. 1610
• MFA 44.522a-b, 1610-1620

• Two Venetian Ladies by Vittore Carpaccio, c. 1510
• Venetian Woman with Moveable Skirt (Courtesan and Blind Cupid) by Pietro Bertelli, 1563
• A prostitute in Venice from the Habiti antichi et moderni di tutto il Mondo by Cesare Vecellio, 1598
• An Italian Carnival by Arent van Bolten, c. 1588-1633