On Thursday 19 August 2010 11:20:24 pm otsisto wrote: > Could you direct me to an online pic of this? I have come across through > browsing some 1400s Italian paintings with sheer material layer over fabric > of the over gown. Most were by the same artist but one w/embroidery by > another artist from an earlier period.
> [snip] Problem is that the one in question is *not* depicted that way. I should be able to find this one on line, let's see now. There's a ton of places to find it but in most the image cannot be zoomed very large. This one isn't too bad, and it can be zoomed up a bit: http://www.thebeckoning.com/art/limbourg/limbourg-apr.jpg This isn't zoomable but is a bit better: http://0.tqn.com/d/historymedren/1/0/-/H/2/april.jpg Ah, the Brittanica on line has come through for me with an image that can be made both large and zoomable--and you can zoom a particular area. I've used Tinyurl on this link because the URL is very large: http://tinyurl.com/28zmhhz The image is the miniature for "April" and the woman of whose costume I spoke is the fifth person in from the left-hand edge of the picture. She is wearing a light blue houppelande with a dark blue pattern and a wide, white (perhaps fur?) hem, a gold under dress, and a large black fur hat. The beads in question are red and draped over her right shoulder; they finish with a gold- colored tassel low on her left side. -- Cathy Raymond <ca...@thyrsus.com> "No one can make as disastrous a bad choice as a smart person, because they sell it to themselves really well."--Tobias Buckell _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
