Supersizing the image shows great detail, like the edges of the sleeve
slits. Wonderful!
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From: h-costume-boun...@indra.com [mailto:h-costume-boun...@indra.com] On
Behalf Of Susan Farmer
Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2009 6:33 PM
To: Historical Costume
Subject: Re: [h-cost] Laudonia in color WAS: Primary source forElizabethan
pillbox hats sought
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 BW 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 BW, or
something about transfering the name from Italian to French or
whatever the original language of the BW 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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