>When I think of Arcadian nymphs I guess I don't imagine them with
>hats, but Cranach was on to something important: nakedness can be made
>more "passionate" (another problematic term, to be sure), or at least more
>enticing, by something that complicates the nudity--a hat in Cranach,
>black stockings and shoes in Paris.
Reminds me of an old joke: A mother writes her daughter advising that she
never take all her clothes off in the presence of a man. The daughter
replies that she always wears her hat!
Yours, Bill Godshalk
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