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MANSSIERE!!!!
Ewwwww! Ewewewewewewwwww! My eyes! They buuuuurn!
hmm,this seems awfully familiar.
(…did this perchance appear in “from hell”?)
This painting is by Quentin Matsys, and is best known as The Ugly Duchess. Some have thought the painting was a jab at the vanity of aging women who wore coquettish adornment, but it seems this was a real lady who suffered from Paget’s disease:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/3561937/Art-mystery-solved-The-Ugly-Duchess-had-Pagets-disease.html
Thank you! You just saved me from an hour’s rummaging through my files…
That painting is thought to be the inspiration for Tenniel’s pictures of The Duchess in “Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland”, although Tenniel got one detail wrong — The Duchess is described in the book as having a pointy chin.
…Mee Maw?
Ha!
Does that kind of headwear have a name?
It is a type of caul (made from a wire cage and decorated with jewels to show how rich you are, and lined with embroidered cloth) and a veil. It was one style commonly worn by the Flemish in this period.
That style was well on the wane when the painting was done- though an older woman would be likely to wear older, out-of-date fashions. Matsys painted it in 1513, and the fashion was popular in the middle 1400s.
I’ve attempted to re-create this sort of headdress- they’re not easy to make or wear.
1000cc of eye and brain bleach stat.
my eyes they burn
Yeah, she’s in my world famous freaks book. Her parents kept marrying her off, to which the husbands kept cheating or just leaving, so then she became a nun.
@Dave: It’s a BRO!
*squinting hard*
Someone gouge out my eyes, for they can no longer bring me happiness after that which I have seen.
looks like a goblin
i cant fap to this!
Aw fuck i thought art class was the last time i had to see and draw this ugly painting.
George Costanza’s Father looks like George Costanza’s Mother.
I’ve seen this painting in the flesh as a child, it was pretty funny :U
Poor woman.