Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei (Budapest, 2008)

TERÉZ GERSZI: Frans Floris' Early Drawings in Budapest

torn left corner. The thick trees and the hillocks in the background as well as the fastidious filling in of the spaces between the figures and around them with parallel lines and stylised floral elements. A similarity can be clearly discovered in the two depictions in regard to the arrangement, the position and the scrawniness of the three female figures in the top right of the composition. The affinity between the striking arrangements of hair and headdresses worn by the female figures is also conspicuous, as is the emphasis placed on their locks of braided hair. The diversity of the loose, archaising dresses might have been prompted by Primaticcio's works, and this can be supported by the similarity of the clothing worn by the two lower female figures in the Budapest sheet and that of the female figure in the Italian master's drawing (in a private collection)

13 entitled Diana and Three-faced Hekate Adorn Pegasus with a Wreathe (fig. 5). Floris' connection with the Fontainebleau circle can be asserted based on a number of links that had been previously established.

14 6 FRANS FLORIS, THE REWAKINC OT THE MUSES AFTER WAR, PONCE. MUSEO DE ARTE