As I mentioned yesterday, we're just back from a ten-day squint at Italy. We saw a lot of the normal stuff (which was very cool, and I'll be slapping some normal pics up here soon), but being a strange person, I was especially attracted to the strange things like this funky hat in the Vatican Museum.
The description of this one, I believe, dated it sometime in the mid-1800's, meaning the Pope was sporting it around the same time such hats came into fashion in the Old West. Somewhere in the same hallway I spotted a painting of a Pope wearing one like it, but since he was not riding a bucking bronc or brandishing a six-gun, I failed to photograph it. A subsequent search of the book The Vatican: All the Paintings failed to turn it up, making me suspect the title is a lie.
Did you see Joe Lansdale while you were there? He's so popular in Italy that the pope would probably let him wear that hat.
ReplyDeleteI think they only wore it while riding a bucking altar boy.
ReplyDeleteI saw a guy who might have been Joe. I'll post his pic in a day or two.
ReplyDeleteGreat color selection!
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