Monday, August 8, 2011

6) tied loosely about the hips with knot at the front--e.g., Giovanni Battista Benvenuti (aka Ortolano Ferrarese) (1529) (See: Figure 138) indicates a length of fabric encircling the hips and tied, or flapped over the front, resembling the flap of loincloth; Pietro Vanucci (called Il Perugino) (c. 1496) (See: Figure 139), Musée du Louvre, portrays a modesty wrap of limited width just at the pubic arch with a narrow flap descending and nestled between the martyr-saint's thighs terminating in a red tassel that can only be viewed as glans-like in its form and location,


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