Lectures on painting; delivered to the students of the Royal Academy (1883)
Armitage, Edward, 1817-1896 · New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons · leaf 30
llportmanteau. Sometimes, as in the Medici Venus, the hair wasgathered in a knot in the front part of the head, butgenerally the knot was placed behind, where it bal-anced the face, and broke the nearly straight lineformed by the neck and the back of the head. The bands and fillets with which the… … 16 LF.C TUNES ON PA IN TING. Nets made either of thread or silk were also wornto confine the hair, but these nets fitted close to thehead and were not much used for the chio-non, aswith us in the days of beavers tails. The women of Lesbos had a peculiar way ofdressinof their hair, which savors…
Painting · Costume -- History To 500
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