Dear Salvador
An illustration of the illumination (in the Stadtbibliothek, Trier) to which
Jim Bugslag refers may be found in Carl Nordenfalk, Book Illumination -
Early Middle Ages, Geneva, Editions d'Art Skira SA, 1995 p. 119
Regards
John Hall
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From: jbugslag <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: 09 May 2000 19:12
Subject: Re: bare breasts
> Dear Salvador,
> I know nothing of the bare breasts in question, but there is another
> that might shed some useful light on it. There is an Ottonian
> manuscript, I believe it is the Egbert Codex, dating from the late
> 10th century, in which the illumination of the Massacre of the
> Innocents depicts grieving mothers baring their breasts. This topos
> finds a very close parallel in one of the earliest surviving illuminated
> manuscripts, of the works of Vergil, now in the Vatican, in which
> the Death of Dido depicts her handmaidens similarly baring their
> breasts. Hope this is not too far off the mark.
> Cheers,
> Jim Bugslag
>
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