Baby and children's clothing

[mmcnealy]

Art Note for the day, Baby and children's clothing,.

I especially like the toddlers picture where the child is pulling off his shoes.

From Bildindex, http://www.bildindex.de

Path = Orte / B / Braunschweig / Sammlungen / Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum / Kunstgewerbe / Buchmalerei / Das Schwarzsche Trachtenbuch I + II

Child in cradle
http://www.bildindex.de/bilder/MI05036a07b.jpg

Toddlers at play
http://www.bildindex.de/bilder/MI05036f02b.jpg

Schoolboys, one with bookbag on ground
http://www.bildindex.de/bilder/MI05036a12a.jpg

Comments

[gea-gilwen.livejournal.com]

Toddlers at play: OMG... if the woman wasn't wearing clothes that just scream "Renaissance", I'd believe it was a modern day illustration - that kindof walking cart just looks so modern to me.
Very interesting that people had just the same ideas 500 years ago.
It's these enlightening moments that I love costuming and reenactment for. :)

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

I couldn't help noticing that there's a pentagram carved on the cradle.

Eva

[mmcnealy.livejournal.com]

I thought that was interesting as well. I've seen it before on cradles in art from this period, I don't think it had the meaning then that it does now.

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

Well, in a way it had. It was a a protective sign used in folk magic, or wahtever you call it, superstition maybe. And it's a protective sign now too, at least that's one of its uses. In Lödöse, close to where I live thye have a 13th century wooden bowl with a pentagram carved in it.

Eva

[chargirlgenius.livejournal.com]

That cradle looks very familiar. :-)

http://www.mathildegirlgenius.com/gallery/Cradle/20060228_1HenryCradle