ABSTRACT
Thomas Tuke’s attack on painting and tincturing falls into the second category, and while it purports to deal with excessive makeup used by men and women, like the Homily on Apparel, it soon concentrates exclusively on and against women. Tuke’s treatise conforms to these moralistic patterns. He approvingly cites the views of many religious authorities, linking the church fathers to a number of Reformation and Calvinist theologians. “Nature’s form and favor is right and good, / But Belgick colors becomes no Roman blood.” That is to say, the waste of France and such painting stuff are disgraceful in an Italian. She is a creature that had need to be twice defined, for she is not that she seems. And though she be the creature of God as she is a woman, yet is she her own creatress as a picture.
