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To: The KG9 Kid
Um, there's no shortage of medieval portraits of King Richard III that he himself sat for.

No, actually, there aren't. None of the pictures made in life have survived. All the portraits we have were painted many years after his death, and some were deliberately uglified to make him seem extra-conniving and evil.

What I find shocking is his deeply scoliotic spine. How crushed his internal organs must have been when the curvature was so deep.

19 posted on 02/04/2013 6:30:11 PM PST by ottbmare (The OTTB Mare)
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To: ottbmare

Is that right? Startling how the modern reconstructions looks just like the oil paintings. Down to the haircut and hat, yet.


53 posted on 02/05/2013 11:43:15 AM PST by The KG9 Kid (Bring back the booby hatches.)
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