I'm not really a Summer....

[femkes_follies]

I HATE being hot. REALLY hate it. And I REALLY hate working at the Shelby office with no A/C. I nearly melted on Wednesday. Apparently it now HAS A/C, so I'm less whiney about working tomorrow.

So to take my mind off it I've been image-surfing again:



This would be a fun Court outfit. 'Laina, if ever I'm Queen, I want one of these on order ;-):

http://www.museothyssen.org/thyssen/coleccion/ficha761.htm

Another van Leyden I hadn't seen. I'd like to compare it to his other "Lot and his Daughters" if I could find a decent detail of _that_

http://www.nationalgalleryimages.co.uk/upload/image%20database/ng/0/0/0/3000/400/N-3459-00-000010-pp_550.jpg

Darling might need one of these. Especially now that he's been visiting the gym twice daily:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Pencz%2C_Portrait_of_a_Seated_Youth.jpg

If I thought I could pin down the muffin long enough...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Bartholom%C3%A4us_Bruyn_d._%C3%84._002.jpg
Though this might be the underlayer for Anne of Cleves' headdress?

Nifty woodcut of a man's costume. Again, wonder what Darling would make of it.
http://72.5.117.173:8080/view.shtml?keywords=%4A%61%6E&artist=&country=&period=&sort=&start=1&position=5&record=54617

Another version of the Cleves headdress?
http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/viewOnezoom.asp?dep=11&zoomFlag=0&viewmode=1&item=62%2E267%2E2

Wheeee!!! A Dutch lace cap. And I found it all by my own self.
http://mars.gmu.edu:8080/dspace/html/1920/1011/renwomenpoets.html

And the artist herself (with what looks like ANOTHER lace cap):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Hemessen-Selbstbildnis.jpg

I luuurrrrvvvveee this portrait, especially in close up. The lace cap is a lot like the one I'm working on. And the detail on the closure on the hemd is phenomenal.
http://www.thebowesmuseum.org.uk/collections/objects/category/9/328/

Back view of the Dutch headdress. Now I know how long that sheer layer is in the back:
http://www.abcgallery.com/H/hemessen/hemessen5.html