VIRGIL: Re: Illustrations of the Fourth Eclogue in Renaissance art?

2005-07-06 Thread corydon
Emma, Congratulations on the completion of your dissertation! I'd very much like to know if you found many illustrations of the Fourth Eclogue in Renaissance art. Although some have found the coloured sheep silly, I have always liked them. Depictions of the Fourth Eclogue seem to me to be

RE: VIRGIL: Re: Illustrations of the Fourth Eclogue in Renaissance art?

2005-07-06 Thread Emma T.K. Guest-Consales
Dear Peter, I have not found many illustrations for the fourth Bucolic. At the most some manuscripts have decorated initials, and there is one 15th c. ms in Spain with an illumination for B4. It shows V writing and a room with the child in a cradle and two more people. This ms is the only one