MDMD(5): Some Things Incomprehens'ble

[Dave Monroe]

But while I'm at it ...

> Michel Ryckx <michel.ryckx@[omitted]> wrote:
> 
> 1. (58.15) 'sepia-shadow'd Her[r]en XVII'.  Does
> the colour sepia refer to their faces? Is it a
> colour used in their robes and other clothing (but I
> know they were usually dressed in black). Is the use
> of sepia linked to richness, just as the use of the
> colour blue some centuries before was?

That anachronistic sepia aside, this just in ...

Pastoureau, Michel.  Blue: The History of a Color.
   Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, 2001.

http://pup.princeton.edu/titles/7116.html

I've deployed Pastoureau's The Devil's Cloth: A
History of Stripes and Striped Fabric (trans. Jody
Gladding, New York: Columbia UP, 2001) here already
...

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0109&msg=866&sort=date

And, again, see as well ...

Baxandall, Michael.  Painting and Experience in
   Fifteenth Century Italy: A Primer in the Social
   History of Pictorial Style.  NY: Oxford UP, 1986.

Kristeva, Julia.  "Stabat Mater."  The Kristeva
   Reader.  Ed. Toril Moi.  NY: Columbia UP, 1986.
   160-86.

Now if anybody has any information on orange (have
already perused recent posts on William of) ...



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