Elizabeth wrote:
This is not directly clothing related but does anybody know where I can
find a painting that shows the visitation (the bit in the bible where Mary
visits Elizabeth) with a sort of x-ray view where you can see both the
unborn babies (Jesus and John the Baptist) on their mothers stomachs. From
memory it's 14th or 15th century Italian and I think one mother is wearing
pink and the other blue but I may be mistaken. I was talking to a friend
about it but without an artist or reasonably unique title a google image
search didn't turn up anything useful. To bring this back to clothing, I
think it would be fun to recreate the painting by painting or printing a
picture of a baby onto a dress.
The painting is "The Meeting of Mary and Elisabeth" by Max Reichlich,
Austrian, ca 1513. It's up on Web Gallery of Art. I was interested in the
jug and the beverage flask, but the fetuses doing the meet-and-greet between
the pregnant bellies are what made the picture really memorable...
Enjoy,
-Helen/Aidan
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