More on the apostle -
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From: Judith B. Sobre <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Thursday, August 19, 1999 1:35 PM
Subject: Re: Apostle with Glasses
>The Master of Riofrio is a late 15th century Spanish painter (from
>castile). My guess for the sword would be Paul--it's how they usually
>show him there. The glasses are found in other Spanish paintings of the
>period (though not St. Paul): best known is the Saint Jerome in Bartolome
>Bermejo's Pieta (painted in Barcelona in 1490). The glasses, used for
>reading, become, in Spain, a symbol of being scholarly.
>
>Judy Sobre
>
Pippin Michelli, Ph.D
Assistant Professor of Art History, St Olaf College
http://www.stolaf.edu/people/michelli/index4.html
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