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rhombal in lower_tadfield

Fic!

Apr 11, 2006 14:09

I wrote this a long time ago, actually, but I haven't had a chance to polish it up and post it until now. The pairing is based off of one of the footnotes -- and I'm really sorry if I ruined characterizations and/or got my facts wrong. x___x ( Read more... )

rpf, historical, anti_christmas, crowley, gen, fic

Comments 14

musegaarid April 10 2006, 19:40:32 UTC

This is a lovely moment captured beautifully. Bravo!

Do you happen to have a link to the painting?

rhombal April 10 2006, 19:48:43 UTC

Thank you!

It's difficult to find a high-quality one, but I think this will do. Da Vinci painted the left-most angel. :)

musegaarid April 10 2006, 19:52:27 UTC

Wow. It doesn't look anything like the rest of the painting. And he's blonde and wavy haired... XD

creativepseudo April 10 2006, 20:10:02 UTC

Yeah. I'm a total da vinci nut, and I read somewhere that it made Verocchio intensely angry, because to the artistic eye the angel makes the rest of the painting look like shit. :P

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blueeyedtigress April 10 2006, 19:46:26 UTC

Oh-HO! You're making me go look through the footnotes again, are you? Oh, the hardship! ;]

Very nice interlude -- it's always fun to catch a glimpse of which one of them affected what history, down the years ....

rhombal April 10 2006, 19:50:45 UTC

Yes, because I'm too lazy to find where it is. XD

It's probably where Crowley's apartment is being discussed, because in the foonote, he's talking about the Mona Lisa with Da Vinci.

Thanks! :)

The Footnote in Question: blueeyedtigress April 11 2006, 00:56:03 UTC

(re: the sketch for the Mona Lisa -- which Crowley bought from Leonardo -- being better than the painting)

"Leonardo had felt so too. 'I got her bloody smile right in the roughs,' he told Crowley, sipping cold wine in the lunchtime sun, 'but it went all over the place when I painted it. Her husband had a few things to say about it when I delivered it, but, like I tell him, Signor del Giocondo, apart from you, who's going to see it? Anyway ... explain this helicopter thing again, will you?"

That was page 241 in the Corgi paperback edition from '92, the one with the authors' picture inside the front cover ...

r_amythest April 10 2006, 21:52:26 UTC

Quite different, but nice. Crowley stands out so much from the Italian tradition of the time... tsk. Oh, Crowley. X3

The last half was well-written and concluded wonderfully. The beginning was slightly slow and distracting, but I do admit that it transits well anyway.

... Ack, this feels like such a short critique for me....

rhombal April 10 2006, 23:10:19 UTC

Thank you!

The beginning kind of wrote itself, and while I knew that it was slightly clunky, I couldn't force myself to cut anything out. XD

vermin_disciple April 13 2006, 06:23:10 UTC

That was a really lovely little vignette! I think you captured both of them very well.

The only critique I have is that some of the parentheses seemed a bit awkward, but that might just be me.