On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[Robin wrote]
> > I rather wish that Dan Brown had picked a saint who wasn't quite so
> > central to costume study. Say, Mary of Egypt.
> 
>      Except Dan Brown didn't make the "choice".

Um, *that* was a throwaway line, and meant to amuse. This is Mary of
Egypt:

http://www.wga.hu/html/m/memling/3mature1/17rein4.html
(right side)

See, no implications for costume study there.

(Interestingly, the woman on the left is St. Wilgifortis, whom I do use in
the lecture, as she owes her existence to an error of costume
interpretation. But that's one of the better examples in the lecture, and
I don't wish to spoil it here.)

--Robin


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