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In the Allegory of Fortune context, I think its actually an orb or a
globe -- Panofsky talks about this in his classic book on Durer.
Jill Patrick, OCAD
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Date: Monday, January 25, 1999 3:43 PM
Subject: Re: Query: Bubbles in Art/Literature?


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>There is an interesting depiction of  fortune (or fama ?) seated on a
bubble in
>one of  paintings (Allegory of Fortune) displayed in the current  "Dosso
Dossi"
>exhibition currently at the MMA.
>Faith Pleasanton
>
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>From:   Jill Patrick [SMTP:<a href="/scripts/wa.exe?LOGON=A3%3Dind9901%26L%3DARLIS-L%26E%3D7bit7BIT%26P%3D944019%26B%3D--%26T%3Dtext%252FplainTEXT%252FPLAIN%3B%2520charset%3DUS-ASCII%26pending%3D" target="_parent" >[log in to unmask]</a>]
>Sent:   Thursday, January 21, 1999 1:25 PM
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>Subject:        Re: Query: Bubbles in Art/Literature?
>
>Sally Rand, one of America's best-known strip-tease "artists," was famous
>for her bubble dance in the 1930s. The act included men with pins in their
>canes pricking the bubble at strategic moments -- There is a great
>photograph (highly retouched) of her in a full body suit leaning against a
>huge bubble -- Its reproduced on Page 9 of Weekend Magazine (Saturday,
>February 3, 1979) - I did the photo research for this article on "50 Years
>of Striptease" but can't recall exactly where the image came from -- I
>obtained photographs from the Theatre Collection/New York Public
>Library/Astor Lennox Tilden Foundations, from Culver Pictures and from
>CP/Wide World -- I am not sure where the latter two collections are located
>now. Nevertheless, any good book on Sally Rand or striptease should have
>this photograph of the bubble dance.
>
>Jill Patrick, OCAD
>
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>>From: Deborah Barlow <<a href="/scripts/wa.exe?LOGON=A3%3Dind9901%26L%3DARLIS-L%26E%3D7bit7BIT%26P%3D944019%26B%3D--%26T%3Dtext%252FplainTEXT%252FPLAIN%3B%2520charset%3DUS-ASCII%26pending%3D" target="_parent" >[log in to unmask]</a>>
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>>Date: Wednesday, January 20, 1999 9:56 AM
>>Subject: Query: Bubbles in Art/Literature?
>>
>>
>>>Dear Colleagues,
>>>
>>>A student is trying to find examples--either figurative or literal--of
>>>"bubbles" in literature or art (of any style or period). I'm rather
>drawing
>>>a blank.
>>>
>>>He has found several entries in a Shakespeare Concordance which he will
>>>investigate further and I have suggested that he see what the WWW has to
>>>offer (you never know if some bubble-fetishist out there will have a
>site).
>>>I've looked through our meager resources including several dictionaries
of
>>>signs and symbols, the World Painting Index, and the Oxford Companion to
>>>20th-century Literature, but to no avail.
>>>
>>>I'm hoping that someone out there with, perhaps, ICONOCLASS or some other
>>>source, like a literary concordance can site some myths, legends, fairy
>>>tales, folklore, or other stories, or artists who may have dealt with
this
>>>theme or image in their work.
>>>
>>>Please contact me off the list.
>>>Thanks, in advance, for your help with this.
>>>
>>>Debbie
>>>
>>>*****
>>>
>>>Deborah L. Barlow
>>>Head Librarian
>>>Corcoran Gallery of Art Library
>>>1705 H Street, NW
>>>Washington, DC  20006-3908
>>>ph: 202-822-1484
>>>fx: 202-822-1486
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>>>
>>
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