On Thursday 01 January 2009 8:42:31 pm otsisto wrote: > > In my opinion, I don't think that she has a PoB or corset. I think that the > gown is the main support but I think that maybe some shifts in this period > may have been laced in the back or sides to make it a bit snug to add some > support, especially if the woman was endowed with vast tracks of land. :) > The shift under the camicia makes a bit of sense with for modesty. Though > one has to wonder about modesty when they see this painting. > > http://realmofvenus.renaissanceitaly.net/wardrobe/CarianiAlbani.jpg > > Is it a bordello (sp?)
Don't know. However, there's other equally immodest portraits from the period of the Cariani painting: http://realmofvenus.renaissanceitaly.net/wardrobe/LadyInGreen.JPG http://realmofvenus.renaissanceitaly.net/wardrobe/PV1515-16.jpg Here's one labeled as involving courtesans; note the woman at the extreme right corner with her nipples distending her transparent shift: http://realmofvenus.renaissanceitaly.net/wardrobe/CarianiAlbani.jpg -- Cathy Raymond <[email protected]> "If someone offers you a dead dog for lunch, you don't stick around for the pudding." --Ben "Yahtzee" Crenshaw _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
