On Jul 5, 2009, at 10:14 PM, Käthe Barrows wrote:
We need to remember that any redrawing is a secondary source at best.
Sometimes Wilcox is not even a secondary source. My favorite
example she
got from Vecellio, who wasn't a primary source either. (Wilcox
substituted
heeled shoes and trousers where Vecellio shows a skirt and flat
shoes.)
She did violence to a number of Vecellio's images--I actually used
Wilcox to make my very first "Renaissance" costume in high school and
years later found out that the image I used was Vecellio's imperfect
interpretation of the previous century re-drawn with "improvements"
by Wilcox. Needless to say, it was several degrees of separation
from accuracy. Luckily that costume was long since taken apart and
made into something else!
Melanie Schuessler
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