05-21-2006, 09:47 AM
I think you're right and the decorationon the brow of the helemets which you have shown is a repousse representation of hair, painted black in the case of the Orestes image. I'm alos inclined to garee that what looked like fleece in some illustrations may be the very crumpled-looking linen which we see in others, especially since one instance is shown in two ways, the first looking more like fleece and the second more like linen. A reservation that I have is that the skirt of the chiton in the "fleece-toppped" image looks very definitely like linen, so we haven't got a painter who "can't do" linen. This then makes me think that each painter painted from what he knew. One was accustomed to seeing people wearing fleeece with linen and one wasn't. A key question is; who copied whom?
Incidentally, the fabric supplier for the Festival can get that kind of very crumpled linen which looks like it has many pleats in. Beautiful, light stuff which is almost transparent.
Incidentally, the fabric supplier for the Festival can get that kind of very crumpled linen which looks like it has many pleats in. Beautiful, light stuff which is almost transparent.
