[MR] * A website for a maker of period spectacles

[rmhowe]

http://www.renspecs.com/
Reijnier VerPlanck / Rick Wolff
rikwolff at aol.com

No, I'm not him. One of my postings to the Authenticity at yahoogroups.com
brought him out of the woodwork as it were. See below.

> Bartlett, Robert (edited by): Medieval Panorama; (Robert Bartlett is
> Wardlaw Professor of Medieval History, University of St. Andrews,
> Scotland; Published in the U.S.A by the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
> 90049-1687, http://www.getty.edu/2001, Hardback ISBN 0892366427,
> Paperback 0892366435. Published in the U.K. by Thames and Hudson, Ltd.,
> 181A High Holborn, London WC1V 7QX, no website given, Library of
> Congress
> #2001088578.000, 336 pages, Color and B&W illustrations throughout.
> The book is primarily close-up pictures of a large variety of sculpture,
> metalwork, illuminations, paintings, etc. All provenanced very well.
> Page 195, Close-up of  "Jan Van Eyck’s portrait of Canon Van der
> Paele (1436) is the earliest illustration in art of spectacles with
> concave lenses for the short sighted. Convex, long-sighted spectacles
> go back to the previous century." Nationalgalerie, Berlin

However, someone making such a range of period spectacles is bound
to be of note. Previously all I've heard of is the Trig Lane spectacle
reproduction frames (circa 1440) being sold by http://www.jastown.com/ .

As it's a new direction for him and for non-optometrical reenactors
in general, it's simply worth making a note of.

Just think, you can finally look authentic in that nifty late period
Elizabethan overmess on a hundred and five degree F. Pennsic day -
melted or not. ;)

I'm an earlier perioder myself. Unfortunately glasses date to around
1275 in Venice. Vikings only had burning or jewelry fine-detail lenses.
For that article you'd have to have been an earlier subscriber to
Viking Heritage Magazine from Sweden (Gotland actually). Same general
folks the Viking Beads CD comes from.  http://frojel.hgo.se/

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