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What is wrong with...
...this picture?
It's a picture of Lady Venetia Digby, with whom I am mildly fascinated.
But she's dead in it. Look at her eye. This was painted by VanDyck (a family friend) the day after her husband, who mourned her for many years after, found that she'd died in her sleep. After it was painted, Sir Kenelm Digby said that it was an exact representation of what she looked like. The artist added her favorite pearl necklace and the rose, which was meant as a metaphor. It's a beautiful portrait, but the more I look at it, the creepier it is.
"More geese than swans now live, more fools than wise."
It's a picture of Lady Venetia Digby, with whom I am mildly fascinated.
But she's dead in it. Look at her eye. This was painted by VanDyck (a family friend) the day after her husband, who mourned her for many years after, found that she'd died in her sleep. After it was painted, Sir Kenelm Digby said that it was an exact representation of what she looked like. The artist added her favorite pearl necklace and the rose, which was meant as a metaphor. It's a beautiful portrait, but the more I look at it, the creepier it is.
"More geese than swans now live, more fools than wise."