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Mona Lisa and Leonardo Da Vinci

Lavie Enrose

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No no, it's the old question of WHOM she was.

Also, was she a he?

In other words Leonardo in drag?

Interesting thought.
 
kittynh said:
No no, it's the old question of WHOM she was.

Also, was she a he?

In other words Leonardo in drag?

Interesting thought.
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Space alien: more interesting thought

Lucianarchy: even more interesting thought

Seriously, wasn't there a portrait of a chick that turned out to be some English lord? The context escapes me .....
 
I've noticed that when I paint a portrait, the painting will start to look a little like me if I go for a while without looking at the subject (for instance, if the sitter leaves and I go on for a couple hours, painting, trying to work stuff out.)

I think this is pretty normal--we all have a pretty good idea of what we look like, and we're very familiar with other people who look like us, too. By which I mean, blood relatives.

So when the sitter leaves, it's perhaps natural to fill in the void with what we know, unless we're very consciously trying to avoid this. I think it's fair to say that I'm not the only painter subject to this phenomenon.

Perhaps that explains why some people (I'm not one of them) think Mona Lisa looks like Leonardo.
 
wow you do portriats, that's hard. I find not only do you have to get it to LOOK like the sitter, but it helps if you know the sitter because often it's simply the way the person holds their head or the way they hold their body that makes them identifiable.

Well, plus, I'm not that good at realism. A child was once over at my house and said, "hey, you guys bought a picture that looks like your family! That must have ben hard to find!"

Oddly enough, if you look at the face, it isn't much. It's the whole way the bodies are held that makes it look like us.

Plus, I have the feeling bluegill you are a way better painter than I am!

And now that I dyed my hair I don't look like me at all....sigh....
 
The only portrait of DiVinci that I could find is here

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Anyone have any others?
 
kittynh said:
wow you do portriats, that's hard. I find not only do you have to get it to LOOK like the sitter, but it helps if you know the sitter because often it's simply the way the person holds their head or the way they hold their body that makes them identifiable.
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I said I have done portraits. I can't say that I have done them well. ;)
 
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