“The patterns on their faces marked “a sin of pride,” according to the statement.”
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“The artist didn’t like women disfiguring their faces with “beauty patches” and was saying that they were making themselves look like African tribeswomen.”
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Your extremely simplistic ‘explanation’ is fraught with error. How did you manage to get your racial explanation????? The ‘Sin of Pride,’ was all the way back in the Garden Of Eden.......
Unless you’re willing to say Eve was the First black woman.....
....by the way....the genetic make-up of every single racial group *was* in Adam, hence would be in Eve..... just a thought.....
The ‘Sin of Pride,’ is in every single racial grouping, however......
All we know about the painting is the title, “Allegorical Painting of Two Ladies, English School”. There was no write-up by the painter as to his intention. Thus all interpretations are speculative.
The interpretation that it was about “The sin of pride” is the opinion of the modern-day bureaucrat who wrote the statement.
I put forward an alternate possible explanation.
Have a good day.