On Jul 5, 2009, at 12:48 PM, Maggie wrote:
Page 9 shows something the author actually calls a pill box,
Perhaps Wilcox is the source of that misnomer.
and gives it as
Venetian about 1500. We are all aware, right, that this book is not
proper
documentation, being nothing but re-drawings from unidentified
sources?
Yes! And when a source can be identified, often the re-drawings have
"improved upon" the originals.
On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 11:10 PM, Sharon Collier
<[email protected]>wrote:
Wow, if you go to page 4, in the top right corner is a man wearing
a hat
that is almost exactly what everyone has been discussing. (hat/
caul with
rolled/padded brim, even with a slight point in front)Could women
have
adopted a man's style?
I would be very interested to see the source of this re-drawing. It
looks pretty suspicious to me (which is to say that I don't recall
ever seeing headwear of this type on a man in a 16th-century image).
Melanie Schuessler
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