Has anybody ever seen this before?
http://images.cheezburger.com/imagestore/2010/9/9/330d9013-0b7f-468b-9c3a-b22044bb4e02.jpg
It seems to me it's clearly a Victorian or later representation of a
Renaissance style, either Italian or German. But I've never seen it
before and have no idea where
I'd guess it is Victorian or even 20thCentury. The Renaissance era paintings
I've seen seemed to always have the sitter looking out at the viewer. Here
you don't see her eyes at all. Creepy.
Monica Spence
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From: h-costume-boun...@indra.com
Not quite an answer, but another vote for modern: A few years ago a
Ren magazine (Renaissance? This one?
http://www.renaissancemagazine.com/backissues/issue16.html) did a photo
article on people dressed and in settings approximating rennaissance
paintings. I don't recall your image as one of
Cheezburger.com is a site which among other things allows you to to modify pics
(they call them lol builders) - usually with humorous results.
patty
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From: h-costume-boun...@indra.com [mailto:h-costume-boun...@indra.com] On
Behalf Of monica spence
Sent: Monday, July
The style of painting looks to be early 1900s, definitely modern. The
clothing style looks to be a blend of German and Italian.
The hat is German in style.
The hair would be in a caul with this type of hat.
The camicia/hemd style is seen both in Germany and Northern Italy in the
early Ren.
The
Well, being somewhat familiar with the site in the caption at the
bottom of the image, I'd definitely view it with suspicion, as
evidenced by this:
http://chzhistoriclols.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/funny-pictures-history-disco-duck-what-manner-of-plainchant-be-this.jpg
from the same general
Would love to see the thing up close but it looks like a portrait painted from a
photograph as was very popular with infomercials a few years back. Style seems
to represent an absent-minded person in a time machine who has visited
Renaissance, Victorian and 1830s all on the same day ... days ...
