The Metropolitan Museum of Art
I love Leighton. He did some nice bible illustrations that I have used on the Jerusalem Thread.
His heightened realism and detai, combined with a dreamy romanticism, is very appealing to me. :-)
That was a good read. I wouldn’t have even noticed the abnormally long thigh if I hadn’t read it, but now I can see it. I have a print of the Waterhouse painting “Circe Invidiosa,” and he had the same approach to proportion. When I look at it, I can see that her hip and her knee are too far apart. Either her hip is too high, or her knee is too low... but it’s still a beautiful painting.
