by "Adey" <adeyo@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Oct 11, 2004 at 12:09 AM
Alma Tadema has always really irritated me.
He spent so much time painting women in baths but obviously never actually
looked at people in water.
He takes no account at all of refraction.
I'm sure someone told me once he did this deliberately, but it's so naff I
find that hard to believe - though it's true his work is marvellous in all
other ways. But the lack of refraction just ruins it for me.
"Dreamer" <dreamer@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:r0X4d.197$Ki1.151@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> For those of you who have wondered at Tarl Cabot's references to
> "strigils,"
> which are used in Gorean baths, you may see a delightful painting
showing
> a
> woman using a strigil to clean herself here:
>
>
http://www.artrenewal.org/images/artists/a/Alma-Tadema_Lawrence/large/strigils_and_sponges.jpg
>
> The www.artrenewal.org site has hundreds and hundreds of paintings which
> are
> well worth looking at, including many in the Orientalist tradition which
I
> have always found charmingly Gorean in many respects.
>
> D
>
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> -><-
> Non curo. Si metrum non habet, non est poema.
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