On Thu, 13 Apr 2006, Melanie Schuessler wrote: > Susan B. Farmer wrote: > > > > You can also see this line of trip just above the belt on some statues > > from St. Loup de Naud. This is a large scan (ca. 1 MB in size) so that > > you can see the details quite nicely. > > > > http://epee.goldsword.com/sfarmer/SCA/Paintings/stLoupDeNaud_LeftPortal-detai2l.jpg > > This is very interesting--where is St. Loup de Naud, and is it known > when the statuary was done?
It's by Provins -- e.g. not far from Paris or Chartres. The portals are 12th c. See http://perso.magic.fr/relet/StLoup/Saint_Loup_de_Naud/Saint_Loup_de_Naud.htm for some discussion of the portals For the French-impaired, that's http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=fr&u=http://perso.magic.fr/relet/StLoup/Saint_Loup_de_Naud/Saint_Loup_de_Naud.htm&prev=/search%3Fq%3DLoup%2Bde%2BNaud%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26client%3Dgooglet but as usual this is a little cockeyed! First time I've seen "Moyen Age" (Middle Ages) translated as "the Average Age" ;-) The page says that the portal is not precisely dateable, but probably is around 1160, when the church received a major relic. The female figure is probably the Queen of Sheba (biblical, royal, foreign). There's a Queen of Sheba image in some costume books -- I think it's in Payne, among others, or maybe it was Davenport? -- but I don't know if it's the same one. --Robin _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
