Supersizing the image shows great detail, like the edges of the sleeve slits. Wonderful!
-----Original Message----- From: h-costume-boun...@indra.com [mailto:h-costume-boun...@indra.com] On Behalf Of Susan Farmer Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2009 6:33 PM To: Historical Costume Subject: Re: [h-cost] Laudonia in color WAS: Primary source forElizabethan pillbox hats sought Quoting Patricia Dunham <chim...@ravensgard.org>: >> I had asked Lynn McMasters and she says that it is based off an >> Italian portrait. >> http://lynnmcmasters.com/LadyM.html >> in color and a wee bit larger. >> http://tinyurl.com/yt6hg9 > > Some lurking! Thanks to those folks who tried to make me feel better > about clunky, non-visual writing problems -- apparently your kind > reassurances worked <G>. > > DISCLAIMER: The following is not meant to rant or peck at anyone, > just a statement of our opinions and interpretations. > > We went hunting for a color version too, without having checked all of > otsisto's links! Bad! > > Anyway, we found another(?) color version of the original B&W Laudonia > portrait with more information about the painting, here > http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laudomia_de%27_Medici. > > This is an Italian wiki page for "Laudomia de Medici", note the > spelling of the first name: an M not an N as in the caption on Lynn's > page (which was probably a typo from where she found the B&W, or > something about transfering the name from Italian to French or > whatever the original language of the B&W source page was). > > OPINION: TO OUR EYES, ON OUR COMPUTER SCREENS, (especially when you > enlarge the Italian Wiki picture) it appears from all color versions > that the body of the dress is black, but the hair is lighter, reddish, > both in front of the solid line of pearls and beyond the pearls. It > looks to us like what is "behind" the solid pearl line is also the > reddish of the hair color. Not that you can trust scans for this sort > of thing; we've found paintings in multiple versions with wildly > varying color values! > This painting is also in Moda a Firenze and it's attributed to "Bronzino Workshop" and titled "Isabella d'Medici." And as much as I'd love for this to be a pillbox, I have to agree. It looks like braids under a pearl and cabachon "bun-cover." I uploaded my scan here -- it's Figure 93 for those of you following along with your books. You should be able to keep clicking until you get to the Giant Copy. http://pics.livejournal.com/florentinescot/pic/0008ftdt/ Susan ----- Susan Farmer sfar...@goldsword.com Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College Division of Science and Math http://www.goldsword.com/sfarmer/Trillium/ _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
