late medieval wool chaperon the knight 1 155634831This 15th century headdress is based on a painting from 1430 by the great late medieval painter Jan van Eyck: Man with the Blue Chaperon. Jan van Eyck painted several portraits of people wearing a chaperon, a common headdress in the Middle Ages. A well known example is Portrait of a Man with a Red Turban , which is probably a self portrait. In this painting, Van Eyck used the chaperon as a turban. The chaperon was a hood that fell to the shoulders and