Oh dear, humour crossing past each other and failing to meet! I meant
the girl in the St Nicholas painting - I'm assuming they are the three
poor girls who
couldn't marry because they had no dowries, so St Nicholas threw three
purses of money through their window one night (or something like that)
to help them.
Still just a frivolous suggestion. But the quote from the Venetian
ambassador is interesting, and would explain Mary Tudor's lady in waiting.
Jean
Kimiko Small wrote:
> You would wonder, except she's got enough jewels on
> her to buy a longer gown; so she must not be that
> poor. But then, it is a Saint. It may represent
> something I don't understand about her story or why
> she and 11,000 virgins were all killed by the Huns
> (maybe they dressed "provocatively" with these
> demi-skirted gowns.)
> {I am trying to be funny, and it is failing badly -
> sorry}
>
> Kimiko
>
>
> --- Jean Waddie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> <snip>
>
>> apron is lying flat). I'm intrigued, if this is
>> allegorical or an
>> artistic convention,
>> why did artists want to show shorter skirts like
>> that? Is it just that
>> she's so poor, she's grown out of her gown ;-) ?
>>
>> Jean
>>
>
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