On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Dawn wrote: > McClure, Kate wrote: > > > The image is from the artist Joos van Cleve (found under the C's) on his > > third page, seventh image down. > > They look like tassels to me. I'm not a religious iconography expert, > but I bet she's supposed to be Mary Magdalen, and that would be Mary > in the black robes and white headdress. No idea who the third woman in > back is. I wouldn't count on her clothing being too accurate. It looks > a little "exotic" for the time and place of the painting. By > comparison, there's the donors in front in the fur-lined robes.
Yes, that's the Magdalen, frequently painted in this period with flamboyant clothing, often with unusual / exotic / "foreign" details that viewers would understand were not representative of real clothing. The third woman in the back is the "third Mary" often shown in scenes of the Crucifixion and related events. --Robin _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
