-----Original Message----- otsisto wrote: > http://www.artsmia.org/viewer/detail.php?v=12&id=547
<She is wearing a fantasy creation that combines the most recognizable elements of the sideless surcote (which was traditionally used for St. Catherine but is by now a century out of date) with a hodgepodge of elements of more recent styles. The dress most definitely never existed. This one will have to go into my collection of "weird Catherines." I have a lot of those. The same artist did multiple Catherines. Compare the Minneapolis example with this one at the Philadelphia Museum of art, likely painted a decade or more earlier: http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/102091.html?mulR=26001 He did a lot of other paintings of female saints, too -- it was a specialty of his, apparently -- and I'm sure he mixed and matched elements repeatedly. --Robin What threw me off is that the front, because of the "chains"? looks like a wide front Burgundian. The belt is similar the belts worn with the wide lace front. http://cadieux.mediumaevum.com/burgundian-gown.html Scroll down. De _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
