The commentary in the Dover reprint I got this from
says the whole upper section is a jacket, and it may
be. A lot of German peasant women in the woodcuts are
shown with jackets with a long peplum or skirting that
is definitly not a tuck of the skirt. That this one
has another colored band at the bottom looks to me
like it's meant to be the bottom edge of something,
not the middle. Plus it's so flat. It's hard to
believe that anyone who has actually seen a woolen
dress tucked up would mistake it for a flat frill or
peplum. (Cranach gets it.) This lady isn't a peasant,
but it could surely be a jacket.
Click the B/W image next to it in the album for the
back view. ("Hey lady, turn around!")
Here it is directly.
http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2710325920025622007dsYOiq
Of course, they're all artist's impressions, not
photographs. But this "jacket" does seem like the
curiosity in the OP's picture.
For more short gown (but not that short)over longer
kirtle, there are these two
http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2505459060025622007pIZwWA
http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2824775790025622007jsyHRh
MaggiRos
--- otsisto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Though I vaguely remember seeing some German prints
> and French manuscript
> illuminations with either the short over dress or
> the long "peplum" bodice
> (this is the first I remember seeing both on one
> figure), I wonder if the
> artists might have mistaken a "tuck" of fabric like
> it is here in the Lotto
> painting?
> http://www.abcgallery.com/L/lotto/lotto6.html
> for a long peplum.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> I don't have the original post, but I thought the
> short skirt over long skirt thing seemed Spanish. So
> here's something I found that might be useful. It's
> from Weidnitz "Trachtenbuch" about 1530 or 1540.
>
>
http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2767477510025622007ZaBAUb
>
> MaggiRos
>
>
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