Quoting Patricia Dunham <chim...@ravensgard.org>:
I had asked Lynn McMasters and she says that it is based off an Italian
portrait.
http://lynnmcmasters.com/LadyM.html
in color and a wee bit larger.
http://tinyurl.com/yt6hg9
Some lurking! Thanks to those folks who tried to make me feel better
about clunky, non-visual writing problems -- apparently your kind
reassurances worked <G>.
DISCLAIMER: The following is not meant to rant or peck at anyone, just
a statement of our opinions and interpretations.
We went hunting for a color version too, without having checked all of
otsisto's links! Bad!
Anyway, we found another(?) color version of the original B&W Laudonia
portrait with more information about the painting, here
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laudomia_de%27_Medici.
This is an Italian wiki page for "Laudomia de Medici", note the
spelling of the first name: an M not an N as in the caption on Lynn's
page (which was probably a typo from where she found the B&W, or
something about transfering the name from Italian to French or whatever
the original language of the B&W source page was).
OPINION: TO OUR EYES, ON OUR COMPUTER SCREENS, (especially when you
enlarge the Italian Wiki picture) it appears from all color versions
that the body of the dress is black, but the hair is lighter, reddish,
both in front of the solid line of pearls and beyond the pearls. It
looks to us like what is "behind" the solid pearl line is also the
reddish of the hair color. Not that you can trust scans for this sort
of thing; we've found paintings in multiple versions with wildly
varying color values!
This painting is also in Moda a Firenze and it's attributed to
"Bronzino Workshop" and titled "Isabella d'Medici."
And as much as I'd love for this to be a pillbox, I have to agree. It
looks like braids under a pearl and cabachon "bun-cover."
I uploaded my scan here -- it's Figure 93 for those of you following
along with your books. You should be able to keep clicking until you
get to the Giant Copy.
http://pics.livejournal.com/florentinescot/pic/0008ftdt/
Susan
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Susan Farmer
sfar...@goldsword.com
Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College
Division of Science and Math
http://www.goldsword.com/sfarmer/Trillium/
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