On Fri, 30 Dec 2005, Susan B. Farmer wrote: > This painting > http://epee.goldsword.com/sfarmer/SCA/Paintings/florentine_PortraitWoman-landinFig39.jpg > or > http://tinyurl.com/byswr > > is simply listed as "Florentine" with no specific artist attributed. > It's almost *identical* to the painting from Rosa's book currently > under discussion.
By George, I think you've got it. Note especially the little curl of hair in front of her left ear -- only in the b/w image, it goes down along her neck. I'll go out on a little limb here. Here's my guess at a scenario: The b/w image started as an engraving (photogravure) made for a French book in the early 1800s. The engraver used the image Susan cites as a base, but made some adjustments/embellishments based on other portraits (including the addition of the dog, jewels on the sleeves, etc.). The French book captioned the image with the French version of the name of a Renaissance artist who was at that time thought to be the artist of at least one of the prints the engraver worked from. Levi-Pisetsky picked up the engraving, and the attribution, without verification, and analyzed it as though it were an accurate original. The "a" in the attribution is a leftover preposition from the original French caption. --Robin _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
