Re: VMs: RE: St Mark's Basilica in Venice...?

[Dennis <tsalagi@xxxxxxxx>]

	I can see I'm not getting all the voymail...

Nick Pelling wrote:
> 
> Again, the decorations on some of the pharma shapes (most notably the
> object on the bottom left of f89r) in the VMs' pharma section look (to me)
> a lot like those found on Venetian Murano glassware from 1450-1500 (for
> example, there are some fine examples in the V&A Museum in London, &
> probably 100's more in Venice itself).

	Could you give us a link for this glassware?  I found
this:
http://www.boglewood.com/murano/

It has a link for the V&A Museum, but it doesn't work.

	Also.  What do you think about the nymphs as folkloric
water spirits, 
naiads, etc.?  Do you, or anyone else, know about such
mythic creatures in 
Italian folklore?  The nymphs remind me somewhat of
Rubens' Flamandes.  Are 
there comparable women in Italian Renaissance art?

Dennis
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