Quoting Robin Netherton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Susan B. Farmer wrote:
I have *no* clue! It's rows of "alternating" trapezoids -- /\/\/\/\
is the apparrent arrangement of the pieces
Actually, the trapezoids do not alternate. They are all placed with the
short side up, so that they contribute to the flare of the skirt. (This is
much clearer in person, on the painting, than in any reproduction.) The
trapezoidal shape becomes less pronounced further down the skirt, where
the shapes are both larger and closer to rectangular.
You know, of course, that you're right! I looked again. I'm thinking
that I"ve got a book that has a Really Good Copy of that painting, but
I'm not finding it. I'm pretty sure that it's in the book on Campin.
The authors (Thurleman -- u with an umlaut) present their case that
it's actually Campin and not Weyden that is the painter here.
If you're an Or Nue fan -- it is believed that Campin did the cartoons
for the Vestments for the Order of the Golden Fleece -- and there are
some **AWESOME** enlargements in this book of some of those figures.
We have had long discussions of this on the list before ... let's see,
here's a post I wrote on July 26, 2002:
Cool! Thanks for the links. That was before I joined this list.
Susan
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Susan Farmer
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University of Tennessee
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
http://www.goldsword.com/sfarmer/Trillium/
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