Once You See This Painting You Can't Unsee It
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- Check out Vessi's Memorial Day sale and Vessi styles at www.vessi.com/.... If you missed the sale, Use code ARTDECO for 15% off your order. Free shipping for CA, US, AU, JP, TW, KR, SGP. Thanks Vessi for sponsoring this video!
This piece is called Las Meninas by Diego Velázquez. One of the most famous and controversial paintings in the world. In the center of the painting is the five-year-old princess, Infanta Margarita Teresa. To her left and right are her ladies-in-waiting (meninas) and the rest of her entourage surrounds her. Don José Nieto Velázquez stands in the backlit doorway, ascending or descending the stairs on the back wall. We can also see two hazy figures staring back at us. This is King Philip IV of Spain and Queen Mariana. To the left of the painting is the artist himself, Diego Velázquez. But what is he painting? The answer to this question is still a mystery more than 350 years later.
Velázquez depicts a bright future in the idealized depiction of Margarita who was the only living heir at the time. But the reality was much more bleak. Thank you so much for watching!
#art #arthistory #lasmeninas #velázquez #classicart #fineart
Credits:
Arcadia - Wonders by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. creativecommon...
Source: incompetech.com...
Artist: incompetech.com/
Smoke and rain effect from Vecteezy
Check out Vessi's Memorial Day sale and Vessi styles at www.vessi.com/artdeco. If you missed the sale, Use code ARTDECO for 15% off your order. Free shipping for CA, US, AU, JP, TW, KR, SGP. Thank you Vessi for sponsoring this video!
Fun fact the second dwarf painting you showed looks exactly like my partner.😀 He's also a professional artist lol
You are the undisputed master of the YT ad segue, lol
It is ironic that Hapsburgs wanted to keep power, but then extreme inbreeding leads to sterility or very fragile babies that do not survive. In an effort to keep their line, they killed it. The same happened with King Tutankhamun and his family.
The HABSBURGS didn't know about genetics just like everyone else back then and the strategy that got them from being a minor house holding a small province to Holy Roman emperors was marrying their children off strategically, unfortunately when they were extremely powerful this led to incest matches because they could otherwise only marry down not up like they used to and also most noble houses in Central and Western Europe had Habsburg genes in the mix at that point. Let's not pretend that all the other noble houses in Europe and even commoners were beyond incestuous marriages back then, it was common to marry cousins decades into the 20th, even Charles Darwin married his own cousin.
A big problem was the geopolitical reality of the time. Britain and half of Germany had become Protestant, while Italy was just a vassal of Spain.
A Habsburg did not marry servants or Protestants. The only family of equal dignity and Catholic faith for them was the Bourbons, whom they had literally spent an entire century trying to murder. The political circumstances forced them into incest.
It was "de rigueur” for Egyptian pharaos to marry their sisters. In Europe, starting from the medieval era, there was always a certain degree of inbreeding among the ruling family, but no one pushed it further than the Habsburgs.The last king Charles II suffered from a genetic disease which rendered him (thankfully) infertile, and he was reportedly never able to learn to read or write. If you take a good look at the Windsor family, there's some serious inbreeding there as well.
@@myriamickx7969 Oh for sure. Even the late Queen and Prince Philip were 2nd cousins. Not too bad, but still closer than I'd like to be with my own family. lol Of course Victoria and Albert were 1st cousins, IIRC. And on and on.
@@c.w.8200Doesnt make it less weird and gross. It also doesnt change the fact that they killed their own, u do not need genetics to know that marrying procreate in your own familly tree is gross, weird and will have some conséquences
I don't understand how anyone could think Las Meninas is boring or cringey. It's a combination of "you are there" realism and Velasquez' sense of humor by creating a puzzle of multiple perspectives in the mirrors. If not for Velasquez how else would we know what these tragic people looked?
please never change your microphone. it kind of adds a unique character to your videos
What way does the mic make her voice different?
@@gracev8762 It's the room she records and the echo. A little on the mic-- which honestly sounds wonderful to me as well.
I find the sound quite distracting and kind of 'blurred' almost to the point the point of giving up.
@@marilynmcconnell-twiss3046 Agreed. I looked for closed captions. Finding them unavailable, I'll just move on to another video.
This echo makes her sounds like she is a guide in a museum telling us about famous paintings. I think it fits the theme of the chanel incredibly well.
I wish I had that skill. His style is loose yet tight, painterly yet supremely detailed and realistic, effortless but intricately and painstakingly planned down to every last detail.
I'd say you can describe pretty well what you like.
The "skills" is just practice.
I wish I had that dog 😊
Well... I mean if you spend every hour of every day from childhood to middle age you would prolly be able to make some really good stuff. Too bad only rich people are allowed to devote their lives to hobbies.
Painting is actually fairly easy, as opposed to eg. playing an instrument. You can paint at your own speed, reshape and paint over...
There's tons of videos on RUclips on how to paint. Bit of perspective, bit of drawing (objects from basic geometrical shapes) and colour theory (colour wheel). You can paint decent stuff in no time.
@@c3N3q Well of course painting is fairly easy everything is fairly easy the problem is painting WELL is not fairly easy. You can apply that same logic to music too. There are tons of piano tutorials on youtube and in little to no time you too can play Mary had a little lamb...
You got me into art history. Your style of narration is superb.
That’s amazing. Thank you!
She the best!!
i litterally had zero interest about art history before this channel. but now i am watching every video of this channel, incredible
The whole ‘juice box” bit has had me snort laughing
The narrator sounds like a second-rate robot.
Horrifying that this young girl was used and abused until she was 21 and died from her 7th pregnancy! Disgusting history. I have seen a copy of this painting and could never have imagined.
Came here to say this! omg I couldn't believe it when I heard that part!!
I'm spanish so I have obviously studied Las Meninas at school. But seeing them in real life is on a whole new level. It's just breathtaking. I have gone to El Prado three times and it have awed me everytime. It's a very big painting and you can see it way before you enter in the room. And just for a moment is like those people were just there. It's an experience that if you have the chance to live, I totally recomend.
Thank you for this engaging description! I will make it a point to go there.
If you ever find yourself in Tampa, Florida, I suggest you go to the Salvador Dalì museum. It's the closest experience I've had to the one you described seeing Las Meninas.
What an entertaining video stacked with info on this wonderful painting. Thanks for your work, always a joy to watch.
Thank you!!
@@Art_Deco I concur.
I remember the first time I looked at a digital version of this painting. I zoomed in on the dog and all I could see were a few smears of black and brown paint. Then I zoomed out a bit and suddenly -- DOG! The whole dog is just a suggestion really, not a figure, but it's so masterfully done you can clearly see DOG. It's amazing.
"An arranged marriage to a man that's both her maternal uncle and paternal cousin." That sentence broke me.
Along with died at 21 during her 7th pregnancy :(
How clever of Valesquez. We are an observer of a painting being painted by a painter observing the observed in a painting by observers while painting himself. He's communicating with us over centuries.
I SO enjoy YOUR creations!!!!😂 Thank you again, historically informative as well as keenly observant, and may i say, riotously entertaining! 🤣❤
Thank you!
I actually have a photo as a five year-old standing beneath the painting, strangers took photos of me because i was the same height as the infanta 😅
A print of this painting used to hang in my parents' living room and I remember always thinking something was off. Thanks for making me understand it better!
Velazquez's painting hand looks like a motion blur. Like the painting is catching him in mid-stroke. Adds life and action to the scene.
It's interesting because Velazquez also experiments with portraying movement in his other painting "Las hilanderas" or "El triunfo de Aracne". There, the spinning wheel on the foreground has also a blur effect to convey movement. And that was happening more than 200 years prior to cinema! As Manet said, Velazquez is truly the painter of painters.
@@limecilla7612Not completely related. But I like to photograph dancers and when I do I like to portray them in motion. But the dancers don't seem to like it.😅
Then I looked at the dance photography of Michal Baryshnikov. It's almost all motion blur. It's phenomenal!
When you were describing the way Velazquez had painted his own hand, I thought--it's like he's painting a blur, as if his hand were in motion. But of course this painting predates the camera...it's amazing that he would've thought of doing this. Genius.
I really enjoy this channel and look forward to your lighthearted and informative reviews. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and humor in such an entertaining way.
Habsburg Jaw was strong with this one.
Velasquez seems to have that same jaw.
But the little girl didn't seem to display it noticeably to me. Did the artist adjust it or did it just take puberty to make the characteristic long face show in her?
Okay, just so you know, the dress was not “poofy” during this time period women had an under structure called Pannier it was a cage that held the dress out on either side and yes the size mattered. (And yes I am an expert in historical costume.)Also in regard to the feet, they may have not been visible due to the size of the panniers or perhaps in shadow to add to the illumination of the central figure.
Thank you for that. There's a few 'dodgy facts' in this vid, and some assertions that ought to be preceded by 'I think' or 'It's possible that'.
The trouble is with these interpretations, I always wonder how much is just guesswork? I mean, when we say 'By doing X, Velasquez wanted to say Y' do we really know that, or is it just an interpretive guess? Including the Reubens paintings in the background could just be an homage, like the mirror is, and nothing to do with claiming that he had 'reached the same level' as Reubens. I think we need to distinguish between what we KNOW, what is SYMBOLIC, and what is only SUGGESTED.
Even though you don’t post often, I can’t tell you how much I appreciate it when you do. I absolutely ❤ this channel. As for the painting, as soon as I saw the princess, I thought, ok, Hapsburg family here??? As far as Diego Velasquez and his message here, I definitely saw it as bragging rights.
Right? The entire family has the chin.
@@wordforger definitely. The forehead too I think.
Las meninas é uma pintura barroca, do século XVII, cuja característica mais marcante é o equilíbrio entre luz e escuridão.
Um exemplo perfeito de antítese.
Chiaroscuro!
Move over Mona Lisa indeed! A lot of people considered the painting unimpressive until someone decided to steal it thinking nobody would notice the painting's absence. Las Meninas has a lot more to unpack, although A Bar at the Folies-Bergère will always be one of my favorites!
It was seen as unimpressive because it didn't depict anyone important, they were and are not sure till this day who it depicts. But the techniques were impressive enough for the time. I see though why people might find it boring, not much happening in there and a normal woman depicted without anything special like some bling bling or a great hairstyle to look at. Not lively enough like the Impressionists paintings.
I had the honor to view this paining in person last January... I stood there for 20 minutes or so. It is absolutely amazing and beautiful. It is much much larger then one would think also.
You forgot point no. 3 at the end there - don't marry too close in the family! Margarita may have lost three of her four children because of their inbreeding, the accumulation and concentration of of various lethal birth defects and/or syndromes. Eventually Nature takes over and says "I just can't make any viable offspring for you any more! I've got nothing to work with". Charles II had so much wrong with him it was tragic. He really suffered, all for a decision that was taken by his forebears to retain power and wealth. He was the end of the line. It would surprise me if he could even consummate a marriage, but if he could, there were so many issues that pregnancies would miscarry early enough to be considered a a late period. Anyhow, I enjoyed your breakdown of the painting and the history behind it. This video was on my RUclips home page - so, All praise to the Algorithm!! You have earned a new sub.
Picasso was actually obsessed with this painting. He created a huge amount of drawings and studies of the painting, many of which are on display at the Picassom museum in Barcelona
Not just studies, but a whole series of finished paintings.
Yes, the dog is certainly adorable. Velázquez was an amazing painter.
"..little girl giving us serious side eye.." 👀
Missed opportunity to say "bombastic side eye"
*just kidding* LOVE YOUR VIDEOS!
The master piece of a art!
Can't express how much I love your video style. I've looked long for videos on art and art history that weren't too academic or too dumbed down. This is perfect! Also absolutely adore your humour.
I stumbled upon this video by accident. How marvelously entertaining! I thoroughly enjoyed your narrative and instructive presentation ~ Don't change a thing! I shall return!
I’m so glad you mentioned how cute the puppy is, when I first saw this painting in my art history class that was my first reaction to it lol
I missed these sooo much!! ♥
completely unrelated, i love the scenes you made of the people in the room basically arguing with each other, i honestly kinda wish more art history videos had that
I find it hard to imagine a painter being like "YEAH Oh MAN I'm gonna paint these two people IN LINE with each other SO HARD, and there's nothing they can do about it! SICK BURNS BRO."
I really think people in the present day may just put too much focus ho much of a historical painting was based in decorum rather than the simple realities of basic composition.
I certainly believe there were commissioners who would have enforced things like royalty planes and such.... but I rather suspect they weren't expected norms, and were more likely just supremely petty individuals. I can't say I've ever seen compelling evidence that reinforces the idea that art was so heavily structured.
If anything I've seen more evidence to suggest that artists did whatever they wanted and thought was clever, and seemingly those patrons who even understood the joke found them rather amusing, as we still have so many of these paintings that supposedly insult their subjects, the ruling class, what or whomever.
Las Meninas. One of the greatest masterpieces of all time
wow your channel deserves so many more views and subscribers
Thank you!! Maybe we can get to a million subscribers one day. That would be a dream 😍
@@Art_Deco I really hope that happens
fingers crossed
By the way I love your video's so keep going
agree!!!!
-Married her uncle
-7 pregnancies by 21
-death by pregnancy at 21
I’mma gently say, CPS
🚶🏾♂️
The painting is like a mirror through time in which we stair through to the moment the painting is being made while the people in the painting staring back at us creating a moment of back and forth !
I remember seeing this painting as a kid in person back in the early 90s when I went to Spain. Many years later as an adult I saw it on the internet and completely forgot where I’d originally seen it. I studied and researched it for years before I remembered where I’d originally seen it.
A visit to El Prado museum is a must for any art admirer.
It really is ❤
I saw the painting Las Meninas Adel Prado and viewed it with my back to the painting and from a mirror. In that viewing, it is positively 3D. That was over 50 years ago and that impression has remained with me!
I always enjoy your analysis... keep it up. Glad I stumbled across your channel recently!
Thanks so much for this video. Diego Velázquez and I were born in Seville, Spain, and we are very proud of this great artist.
art deco is backlo❤
I wish I'd had references like this when I was doing art history growing up, even though I eventually garnered most of this information, it's your presentation that makes it relatable and exciting!
I really look forward to your videos, they're always so informative and entertaining! Also, can i say you have the best way of introducing your sponsors :D
"Memorial day sale" is the most shocking thing I've heard in a long while. Bruh. Memorial day, isn't that supposed to be for mourning deceased soldiers for their sacrifice? Who's shopping and having fun like it's nothing?
Consoomers
Bro yeah as someone from the uk i cannot imagine remembrance day having sales thats insane
Yes, Las Meninas is the size of the canvas you see Velásquez painting here. It is huge...and yet hard to see in person because of the huge number of tourists who stop on group tours to see this!
Ayyy new vid!! thank you for the vids, you're my faveourite art youtuber, love the memes in the videos, haha. keep up the great work!!!
That means a lot! Thank you so much!
The idea that this painting sealed the little princess faith to marry his extremely inbred uncle who fell in love with her after seeing this painting is quite depressing.
it feels like every painting on this channel is "the most controversial painting" lol
love ur channel, keep it up
Each era has its controversies
I really love your channel. I’ve learned more art history from you than I did in my college courses.
Your videos are wonderful! so funny while teaching what I wanted to learn. Thank you! This was a joy to watch.
You're almost half a million! looking forward to your success. this channel deserves recognition. i love your content, keep up the good work!
keep on sharing all this art with us. whenever i do somrthing i just listen to your video. i love learning things about the paintings. love from the Philippines! keep up the good work!
agree 💯
Way to many Hapsburg chins for one video.
You're right. I have always found this painting intriguing. The element of the unknown combined with the contrast of dark and light color keeps drawing the eye into the painting. One feels compelled to stare.
Btw when margarita got older and lots of her babies died young (due to incest) she blamed 'those jews who cursed her'. Ew
I had the good fortune of seeing this painting in Madrid. It’s not enough to just see such a great work but to understand the context of why it is heralded as such. And you do a great job of that. Thanks.
I don’t understand how art of the last century was the highest paid art ever when old masters like this exist.
Just in case you'll need the genetics of inbreeding (for a trivia or something):
The reason why inbreeding is so disturbing in most cultures is because it is highly correlated with genetical disorders. A great variety of inherited diseases are passed down like recessive characteristics. That means that many people carry a bad gene, coming from the one parent and a good gene coming form the other parent. However the presence of the good gene suppresses the bad one and the person is healthy.
That person can pass down to their own child, either the bad gene or the good gene. In order to have a child with a disease (autosomal recessive genetical disorder), this child has to claim two bad genes (one from both their parents). The possibility for this to occur is higher when the parents are two people who come from the same family (siblings, first or second cousins etc.), because it is more probable that they both carry the same autosomal mutation (bad gene) for the same genetic disorder (because of the similarity of their DNA). Those two bad genes, when coexisting they can cause either death or deformity in the child. It is not surprising, thus, that many of Margarita's children died in a young age (because she married her uncle and they both carried suppressed bad genes that they passed down to their children) and that the heirs of the throne ended up with severe health issues and deformities (attributed to those bad genes).
In retrospect, it is ironic that the Hapsburgs, trying to protect their throne from outsiders, they condemned their family legacy to perish through pain and despair. The symptoms of Carlos II, the last king of Spain, are described as: the well-known Habsburg jaw, developmental delay, intellectual disability, dysarthria, skeletal deformity, recurrent infections, epilepsy and infertility, among others. Those symptoms are most likely attributed to aspartylglucosaminuria (a huge name standing for an autosomal recessively inherited lysosomal storage disorder).
Note that this is just the outline of inbreeding! Genetics is a far deeper and a fascinating subject to delve into.
Thank you for the video. The one great failing of this painting is something that I have never heard any art historian address. I'm not sure if any art historian is even aware of the failing. The problem is that, if the images of the king and queen in the back of the room is a mirror which reflects the king and queen, who are supposed to be in the front of the room out sight of the viewer, that's a physical impossibility. Notice that the images of the king and queen completely fill the mirror. For their images to fill the mirror, they would have to be standing no more than a foot in front of the mirror. No art historian seems to have ever remarked on this. The only believable explanation for the images of the king and queen at the back of the room is that the images are not in a mirror but are in a painting. In the end, it should be said that the failure is not really in the painting itself, but it is in the people who interpret what they think they are seeing.
Glad I’m not the only one who thought that! To me its surely a painting, not a mirror
4 children with 7 pregnancies in total by 21? And then to die at that age 😢 That was the sole purpose of her life, to marry her uncle/cousin and have children, to make sure there were enough Hapsburgs to keep the family in power all throughout Europe. In the painting, we think we see a young girl full of privilege and promise, when the reality was very different indeed.
The segway into the sponsor was *chef's kiss" perfect!
Nice channel..
Im just an old mechanic in 🇦🇺 who stumbled upon a year ago(ish)
Im by no means an Artist and posess none ...
You intruige me with your attention to detail (something even a mechanic needs) but
brushstrokes, the tools and pigments of bygone eras captivate my attention (along with your knowledge)
Keep teaching us dummies 101 😄✌
Never thought of Vasquez as the progenitor of Impressionism! Amazing, thank you!
Velasquez.
@@anaz5918 Velazquez .
This is my favorite painting yet among all the great works you have shown. Your intelligent and entertaining videos have been my art education. Great work (you and Velazquez).
@mike_98058 - My absolute favorite painting is "Juan de Pareja", also by Velázquez. It's in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC.
love, love your channel. love your presentations, your voice. love learning about art.
I really love how you narrate these videos !
I don’t know many female artists (other than frida) and would really appreciate it if you did more videos like this on artworks made by other women in history
It’s just a suggestion though, I know you’re really busy and at the end of the day you should be doing what you enjoy
Look up for Artemisia Gentileschi, an italian barock painteresse...later Angelika Kauffmann, Swiss...Vigee le Brun, France - she painted Marie Antoinette ofter...there are many talented woman painters
My favorite is Mary Cassatt, one of the Impressionists. I considered decorating my nursery with prints of her work (I ended up doing fox paintings by a friend of mine, instead).
You have also the Italians Rennaissance painter Sophonisba Anguissola and early baroque Lavinia Fontana, Flemish still-life painter Clara Peeters...
I live in Madrid and every time I go to the Prado, I always go look at this painting. It’s one of my favorites!!
Amazing painting! I am drawn to someone different every time I see it.
I love your channel and your narrations. Could you please do a commentary on Rene Magritte or Sandro Botticelli’s work? They’re very intriguing. Thanks! ❤
I hope you get to make more of these videos. You reminded me of highschool, of history art classes and many of your points are not only similar to my experiences on those classes but sometimes identical like in this video. Education about arts is universal but mostly carried by those who chose to focus on literal textbook presentations.
Well researched and well presented. The Hapsburgs had a 200 year dynasty, not a 200 year reign, which would require a monarch to be on the throne as king or queen for 200 years. Even the long-lived Ellizabeth II of the Windsors only made it to 96.
Velasquez is believe it or not viewed in many circles as not just the greatest Spanish , but greatest painter of all time . Spanish Barrouque civilization includes some of the greatest architecture and literature in the Western Cannon . Miguel Cervantes Don Quixote will never be bested and for those in the know a great deal of what happens in the novel happened to Cervantes he was captured by the Ottoman Turks and sold into slavery for time . Luckily he managed to escape .
of the cruelest colonialists, the Spanish
I obviously wasn't there when this artist was creating this painting, but yes, that pupper was indeed an adorable good boy/girl. 💗💞
John Wick quality.
THE AUDIO is WAY TOO TIRING!!..OH PLEASE 'SHUT-UP!!!!!!!... Let me GUESS? No job! Daddy pays.....AND PAYS ......AND...(etc) RICH GIRL- 'PRIVATE ARTSCHOOL' -DRIBBLE GRADUATE PROJECT.....🔔🔔DING-DONG!!🔔🔔...WOW!..GEE!!..I GUESSED RIGHT DIDN'T I?
I was never into visual art history before finding your channel. Thank you for helping me find ANOTHER category of art to hyperfixate on 🥰 (also… I don’t think I’ve ever seen a sponsorship ad reel incorporated so effortlessly. Well done. 👏)
Your channel is so rad. Please cover every painting ever made.
love the sense of humor in this video. :)
8:38 "Marguerita gave birth to four children, but only one survived infancy, and during her seventh pregnancy she became very sick and died when she was only 21 years old."
Uhhh....let's math that out shall we? 21 when she died. Seven pregnancies. Was this chick FOURTEEN when she married her uncle???
She apparently went to Vienna to marry at age at 15. Close enough to still be kind of awful.
She married at 15 and spent the next 6 years constantly pregnant until she died while 4 months pregnant
He was not the greatest Spanish painter, he is the greatest painter!
Mona Lisa in paint DOES NOT HAVE EYEBROWS or they ignored them. Has no eyebrows on it. That is what makes her cute. Draw eyebrows on her.. and oh nooo !
I knew about Carlos II and I knew about Las Meninas, this video is how I’m finding out they’re freaking brother and sister 🤯
Was literally checking the channel last night wondering, "WHEN IS SHE GOING TO RELEASE A NEW ONE, DAMNIT!?"
May I suggest "Judith Slaying Holofernes" by Artemisia Gentileschi. She used her personal experiences to bring that painting to life! Another painter did his version of the same story around the same time, but it didn't have the raw power Artemisia's did.
The Hapsburgs are literally a Royal freak show 😂😂😂😂
She was only 21 during her SEVENTH pregnancy!!! Good Lord!! 😬
Was she about 14 when she married? If she hit puberty by then, the poor girl may have had one pregnancy per year. Or more often if even more unlucky. She wasn't even fully grown herself by the time she died.
Nice lead into the ad! Well done.
The producers of this video have not done their homework. If they had, they would see that in the painting "Infanta Margarita Teresa in silver dress", painted the same time as "Las Meninas", the Infanta is wearing the SAME OUTFIT as was painted here, same hair ribbon and all. Therefore, in this painting, the Infanta was POSING as Velázquez was painting HER portrait. Her parents seem to have dropped by to see how things were going. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Theresa_of_Spain#/media/File:Diego_Velázquez_028b.jpg
And the back of that canvas so close to the viewer, it appears so big because it is closer to the viewers / royals. Perspective, people! The canvas that the artist was working on is near him, concealed by that canvas in the front.
It's sad that fame is causing corruption in the modern world of art to where people are now taping bananas to walls and calling it a masterpiece. A true masterpiece requires intellectual thinking and time and is by no means simple. Those who truly seek to make great art do not use their name to make crap become famous.
Pregnant 7 times with 4 four children only of which one survived, all before the age of 21...😥
I’ve always admired this painting. Now I have even more reason to love it. Thank you!!
At 7:55. That ain't a "Margarita", That's "High-Fructose-Corn-Syrup". The swollen face, dull puffy eyes, chinless neck...I'd recognize the symptoms anywhere.
not gonna lie, she lost my interest almost immediately. hey lady, you should start with why we should be interested in the painting, not by listing factoids that we don't care about.
Love the creative story telling!
To get the photo like painting they used mirrors and glass ro project the image ro canvas a bit like the old fashioned type pinhole,camera
Wait, she had four kids and was pregnant seven times before she was...21!? Good grief.
You can tell that the dog is also the product of serious inbreeding. Just look at that Habsbark jawline.