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A PRETTY MILKMAID IN DAINTY ATTIRE |
ADAM AND DEATH: SCENE IN AN ALPINE PEASANT'S PLAY |
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| This Flemish beauty was acclaimed the fairest of the sisterhood of Belgian milkmaids. Note the richness of her shawl and the fine lace wings on her ribboned hat | In the villages round Innsbruck, as far as Oberammergau over the modern border of Bavaria, the Tirol mountaineers maintained the old custom of composing and performing religious plays. Girls often took both male and female parts, but men are dominant now. Here is stricken Adam wearily going through life, followed by a quaint kind of Death, with some remarkable onlookers |