Jacobite vs Jacobin in 3D: Happy 14 July!
With my historian and art historian hat on, I've been nosing around piccies and found how interesting it is when you finally get a good view of people in 3D when you're more used to seeing them as 2D portraits.
Some are profoundly underwhelming…
However, some are just so much better than you anticipated.
One of these young men gets labelled 'Bonnie'. Which do you think it should be?
Ramsay seriously flatters Charles Edward Stuart. When you see him in 3D, he's not that "Bonnie" at all, and as for the profile… No thank you. Social status seems to mean some people get rated as better-looking than they are.This stunning terracotta bust of Maximilien de Robespierre, done from life by Deseine, stands up well beside the profile drawing by Boze, which first caught my eye as a schoolgirl… One feels this is a real, breathing person. The expression is superbly done. OK, it's smoothed out the smallpox scars (but as so many people had them, they weren't anything to write home about in 18C) and he's not wearing his specs, and I still could give him a good shake for going so tragically astray after a promising start, but… Max is, frankly, 1000x hotter than so-called "Bonnie Prince Charlie". (The alleged death mask is questionable: there's no sign of the disfiguring bullet wound. Is it a life-mask, has it been 'improved', or is it someone else?)
Edited to add: According to Peter McPhee, the death-mask is a fake, created by Tussaud after she came to Britain. It may be based on memory - she had met him, after all - but there's something slightly off in terms of the proportions, compared with the portraits and the Deseine bust. I wonder if she did a life-mask on some random bloke she thought looked a bit like him? Also, he was very gaunt by the end.
Which is my rambling and whimsical way of wishing all a happy 14 July tomorrow!
Some are profoundly underwhelming…
However, some are just so much better than you anticipated.
One of these young men gets labelled 'Bonnie'. Which do you think it should be?
Ramsay seriously flatters Charles Edward Stuart. When you see him in 3D, he's not that "Bonnie" at all, and as for the profile… No thank you. Social status seems to mean some people get rated as better-looking than they are.This stunning terracotta bust of Maximilien de Robespierre, done from life by Deseine, stands up well beside the profile drawing by Boze, which first caught my eye as a schoolgirl… One feels this is a real, breathing person. The expression is superbly done. OK, it's smoothed out the smallpox scars (but as so many people had them, they weren't anything to write home about in 18C) and he's not wearing his specs, and I still could give him a good shake for going so tragically astray after a promising start, but… Max is, frankly, 1000x hotter than so-called "Bonnie Prince Charlie". (The alleged death mask is questionable: there's no sign of the disfiguring bullet wound. Is it a life-mask, has it been 'improved', or is it someone else?)
Edited to add: According to Peter McPhee, the death-mask is a fake, created by Tussaud after she came to Britain. It may be based on memory - she had met him, after all - but there's something slightly off in terms of the proportions, compared with the portraits and the Deseine bust. I wonder if she did a life-mask on some random bloke she thought looked a bit like him? Also, he was very gaunt by the end.
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Which is my rambling and whimsical way of wishing all a happy 14 July tomorrow!