much more interesting than the Mona Lisa

Oct 17, 2006 15:16

Oh, and over the weekend I saw this picture at the Minneapolis Institute of Art ( Read more... )

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magnolia77sc October 18 2006, 21:01:52 UTC
Yeah, that's a dude. I think he even has some five-o'clock shadow. I wonder if there's facial-recognition software that could verify our impressions.

Whenever I see, e.g., a Renaissance painting that is a mannish-looking woman, I just assume that the artist was crappily and two-dimensionally rendering the human form. But this is beautifully rendered, down to the little pink bows; so how could it be anything other than intentional that it is so dudeiform?

If it were an elderly woman, maybe...but she's like mid-30's at the time, right?

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