RE: [h-cost] Ahem-something interesting

2007-05-11 Thread otsisto
html shouldn't matter. -Original Message- But I've always sent my h-costume messages in HTML. I leave that as my standard e-mail setting and only change to plain text when I post to 1 particular list. Janet Had a quick look on Google - maybe it's been sent in HTML rather than plain

Re: [h-cost] Ahem-something interesting

2007-05-11 Thread Pixel, Goddess and Queen
On Thu, 10 May 2007, E House wrote: My thought (on the February image) was always that it was due to lice or the like... -E House Actually I think it's just artistic conventions--they just didn't draw the pubic hair. You see this in the depictions of the human body in 12th and 13th

RE: [h-cost] Ahem-something interesting

2007-05-10 Thread Glenda Robinson
Don't ask why, but I looked for a good close-up pic: http://www.christusrex.org/www2/berry/DB-f2v-d3l.jpg (No blurring here...) However, it does show that the woman to the left of the man is showing all as well. I can understand though - it's quite cold outside, and I've done similar (however,

Re: [h-cost] Ahem-something interesting

2007-05-10 Thread Saragrace Knauf
: [h-cost] Ahem-something interesting Don't ask why, but I looked for a good close-up pic: http://www.christusrex.org/www2/berry/DB-f2v-d3l.jpghttp://www.christusrex.org/www2/berry/DB-f2v-d3l.jpg (No blurring here...) ___ h-costume mailing list h

RE: [h-cost] Ahem-something interesting

2007-05-10 Thread Susan B. Farmer
Quoting Glenda Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Don't ask why, but I looked for a good close-up pic: http://www.christusrex.org/www2/berry/DB-f2v-d3l.jpg (No blurring here...) However, it does show that the woman to the left of the man is showing all as well. LOL! I'd never noticed the woman

Re: [h-cost] Ahem-something interesting

2007-05-10 Thread Ed Walton
On May 10, 2007, at 10:24, Suzi Clarke wrote: Did they not have - errm - furry bits or hair then? They look added on to me, but then what do I know? Suzi Well, the Roman look is back in these days, so maybe it was enjoying a revival in the middle ages. Ed Walton Lost Battalions

RE: [h-cost] Ahem-something interesting

2007-05-10 Thread Glenda Robinson
My husband wondered it it was because they had stood to close to the fire ... Glenda. -Original Message- Well, the Roman look is back in these days, so maybe it was enjoying a revival in the middle ages. Ed Walton ___ h-costume mailing

RE: [h-cost] Ahem-something interesting

2007-05-10 Thread Glenda Robinson
My husband has now suggested something more reasonable - they could be children! As perspective wasn't used in artworks as yet, children were usually pictured as small adults, so it could well be the two kids of the house warming themselves by the fire. Glenda. -Original Message- My

RE: [h-cost] Ahem-something interesting

2007-05-10 Thread JAMES OGILVIE
I've been trying to post to this thread and I keep getting this message back. What's the problem? Janet From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [h-cost] Ahem-something interesting Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 16:57:28 -0600 The message's content type was not explicitly

RE: [h-cost] Ahem-something interesting

2007-05-10 Thread Glenda Robinson
Hi Janet, Had a quick look on Google - maybe it's been sent in HTML rather than plain text? Glenda -Original Message- I've been trying to post to this thread and I keep getting this message back. What's the problem? Janet The message's content type was not explicitly allowed

RE: [h-cost] Ahem-something interesting

2007-05-10 Thread JAMES OGILVIE
But I've always sent my h-costume messages in HTML. I leave that as my standard e-mail setting and only change to plain text when I post to 1 particular list. Janet Had a quick look on Google - maybe it's been sent in HTML rather than plain text? Glenda -Original Message-

Re: [h-cost] Ahem-something interesting

2007-05-09 Thread Kate M Bunting
It's well known that 18th century sideboards had a cupboard for a chamber-pot, to be used by the gentlemen after the ladies had retired to the drawing-room. No doubt in the more robust 17th century it was considerd OK to do so in mixed company. On the subject of bowdlerised paintings - isn't there

Re: [h-cost] Ahem-something interesting

2007-05-09 Thread Sue Clemenger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 2:06 AM Subject: Re: [h-cost] Ahem-something interesting On the subject of bowdlerised paintings - isn't there a medieval scene (I think in the Tres Riches Heures) showing people warming themselves by a fire, including a man

Re: [h-cost] Ahem-something interesting

2007-05-09 Thread Susan B. Farmer
Quoting Kate M Bunting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It's well known that 18th century sideboards had a cupboard for a chamber-pot, to be used by the gentlemen after the ladies had retired to the drawing-room. No doubt in the more robust 17th century it was considerd OK to do so in mixed company. On the

RE: [h-cost] Ahem-something interesting

2007-05-08 Thread otsisto
Well for one, a man would not hold his thang like that to pee. His coat may be turned back but his vest isn't. And the way his body is angled his thang must be somewhat long. Most paintings that I have seen from this period are more like the chair painting then the clean concise piss pot one but

Re: [h-cost] Ahem-something interesting

2007-05-08 Thread Carmen Beaudry
Subject: Re: [h-cost] Ahem-something interesting Well for one, a man would not hold his thang like that to pee. No, but an artist would certainly paint it that way if he wanted to show the act, but not the anatomy. Denise I've also seen men holding themselves exactly like that when

Re: [h-cost] Ahem-something interesting

2007-05-08 Thread Bjarne og Leif Drews
- From: Land of Oz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Historical Costume [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 3:01 PM Subject: Re: [h-cost] Ahem-something interesting Well for one, a man would not hold his thang like that to pee. No, but an artist would certainly paint it that way if he

Re: [h-cost] Ahem-something interesting

2007-05-08 Thread Carmen Beaudry
Subject: Re: [h-cost] Ahem-something interesting Another note, The young gentleman in the foreground, dressed in yellow - is he wearing womens shoes or is it his own? Just that i se a big difference for the other gentlemans shoes, and the yellow gentlemans shoes, looks very like the maids

Re: [h-cost] Ahem-something interesting

2007-05-08 Thread Cynthia Virtue
Bjarne og Leif Drews wrote: Another note, The young gentleman in the foreground, dressed in yellow - is he wearing womens shoes or is it his own? Just that i se a big difference for the other gentlemans shoes, and the yellow gentlemans shoes, looks very like the maids shoes on the right. The

RE: [h-cost] Ahem-something interesting

2007-05-08 Thread Susan B. Farmer
Quoting Robin Netherton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, 7 May 2007, otsisto wrote: Where did you find the first pic? as I think it is not the original but an altered picture. Kind of like the picture of Henry VIII instead of holding a glove is holding a roasted turkey leg or an Italian painting

Re: [h-cost] Ahem-something interesting

2007-05-08 Thread Dawn
Robin Netherton wrote: The clean painting has muddy areas where the pot was, and the man's garments are still pulled open and turned up inexplicably. The bawdy version is the older one. But that would suggest that the repainting was very recent -- since modern color photography -- or we would

RE: [h-cost] Ahem-something interesting

2007-05-08 Thread Kate Pinner
Has anyone contacted the museum? Kate 609-570-3584 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dawn Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 11:15 AM To: Historical Costume Subject: Re: [h-cost] Ahem-something interesting Robin Netherton wrote: The clean

Re: [h-cost] Ahem-something interesting

2007-05-08 Thread Saragrace Knauf
As someone already pointed out, it is a William Buytewech painting. The orginal (the one where if you actually look closely, you can see the tip of the anatomy.) is at Kaiser-Friedrich-Museums, Berlin. The one on Bildindex attributes it to the same artist and to the same museum. The only

Re: [h-cost] Ahem-something interesting

2007-05-08 Thread Suzi Clarke
At 16:43 08/05/2007, you wrote: As someone already pointed out, it is a William Buytewech painting. The orginal (the one where if you actually look closely, you can see the tip of the anatomy.) is at Kaiser-Friedrich-Museums, Berlin. The one on Bildindex attributes it to the same artist and

Re: [h-cost] Ahem-something interesting

2007-05-08 Thread Robin Netherton
On Tue, 8 May 2007, Dawn wrote: Or, the bowdlerized version was recently restored. That might also account for the brighter colors of the one version. On a quick search I wasn't able to find anything about the painting, though. Oh, yes, that makes the most sense! There were many such

Re: [h-cost] Ahem-something interesting

2007-05-08 Thread Cynthia Virtue
A different age, to be sure! I suppose the servants would supply a vessel and then take it off to the gardens or wherever to deal with it. I am reminded of the Castillian (iirc) standard nativity figurine, of the man relieving himself (don't know if those articles passed through here this

RE: [h-cost] Ahem-something interesting

2007-05-08 Thread otsisto
Similar shoes, might be the same model. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Willem_Pietersz._Buytewech_002.jpg similar shoes http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Willem_Pietersz._Buytewech_003.jpg http://www.museumbredius.nl/schilders/pics/buytewech.jpg

Re: [h-cost] Ahem-something interesting

2007-05-08 Thread Andrew T Trembley
On May 8, 2007, at 8:43 AM, Saragrace Knauf wrote: The only other painting I remember showing this sort of thing is a Breughel - (a younger as I recall) of a woman squatting in the woods. I am sure it is more common than we see. I guess on of the big French palaces(Versailles?) didn't

RE: [h-cost] Ahem-something interesting

2007-05-07 Thread otsisto
Where did you find the first pic? as I think it is not the original but an altered picture. Kind of like the picture of Henry VIII instead of holding a glove is holding a roasted turkey leg or an Italian painting of a grandfather and grandson where the grandfather has a bulbous nose and they put a