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Shakespeare painting is 'only surviving portrait from his lifetime'
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| March 9, 2009
| Matt Sandy
Posted on 03/08/2009 7:04:07 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
A 400 year old painting thought to be the only surviving portrait of William Shakespeare from his lifetime is to be unveiled.
The picture, painted in 1610, six years before the playwright's death, has been owned by the Cobbe family since the early 18th century.
But for three centuries they were unsure if the subject was Britains greatest writer. At one point it was thought to be Sir Walter Raleigh.
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TOPICS: Arts/Photography
KEYWORDS: aleccobbe; cobbeportrait; cobbesalad; godsgravesglyphs; principumamicitias; renaissance; shakespeare; stanleywells; unitedkingdom; williamshakespeare
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To: Revolting cat!
To: Bernard Marx
Maybe that’s how shakespear really was.
To: OCC
The technique of painting eyelashes was not perfected until the early 1980's.
But only happy little eyelashes.
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posted on
03/08/2009 7:32:14 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
To: OCC
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posted on
03/08/2009 7:33:34 PM PDT
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brytlea
(Proud descendent of Andrew Kent, Alamo Defender)
To: mamelukesabre
In other words, you’re agreeing that the subject — Shakespeare or not — is slightly cockeyed? That was the question.
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03/08/2009 7:34:54 PM PDT
by
Bernard Marx
(Free California from public employee union rule!)
To: Bernard Marx
duh. Kinda obvious he’s got one lazy one, isn’t it?
To: OCC; cripplecreek
The technique of painting eyelashes was not perfected until the early 1980's.
?
During his lifetime, Leonardo was indeed above all famous for his evident talent for imitating nature to perfection and when his first biographer, the painter Vasari, described the Mona Lisa [1503-1506], he above all insisted on the work's realism: Its limpid eyes had the sparkle of life: ringed by reddish and livid hues, they were bordered by lashes whose execution required the greatest delicacy. The eyelashes, in places thicker or more sparse according to the arrangement of the pores, could not be truer.
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03/08/2009 7:47:22 PM PDT
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aruanan
To: aruanan
To: SlapHappyPappy
It was a joke.
I figured it must have been something like that, accompanying the guy who shows how to paint really realistic paintings.
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03/08/2009 8:04:59 PM PDT
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aruanan
To: Free ThinkerNY
But as we all know Shakespeare was not written by Shakespeare. Instead it was written by a man who went by the name of Shakespeare. And that matters to some people for reasons that still are not clear to me.
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posted on
03/08/2009 8:10:45 PM PDT
by
lucias_clay
(Its times like this I'm glad I'm a whig.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Painter spent so much time on the doily he just airbrushed the face
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posted on
03/08/2009 8:16:38 PM PDT
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fso301
To: fso301
It does look a tad suspicious. A little too “modern” in technique.
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posted on
03/09/2009 6:06:19 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(Mornie` utulie`. Mornie` alantie`.)
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03/10/2009 7:05:50 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Looks like Chris Martin from Coldplay.
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03/10/2009 7:06:32 PM PDT
by
rintense
(Go Israel!)
To: brytlea
How come no one back then had eyelashes?Evolution. Another proof!
To: nickcarraway
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03/10/2009 7:42:26 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: Revolting cat!
Hmmm what did we evolve eyelashes for? Mascara?
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03/10/2009 7:54:43 PM PDT
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brytlea
(Proud descendent of Andrew Kent, Alamo Defender)
Professor Stanley Wells, Chairman of The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, talks to Warwick student Harriet Birchall about the discovery of a portrait of William Shakespeare, believed to be the only authentic image of Shakespeare made from life. -- Shakespeare Found
There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face. King Duncan, Macbeth, Act I, Scene IV, by William Shakespeare
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08/16/2020 7:22:36 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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