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Is This Really the Only Portrait of William Shakespeare Made in His Lifetime?
The Art Newspaper ^
| 22 November 2022
| Ivan Macquisten
Posted on 11/22/2022 3:10:51 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
Please tell me that isn’t a man bun...
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posted on
11/22/2022 3:12:49 PM PST
by
chajin
("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
To: nickcarraway
Yep, sure do look like him when I done seen him last.
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posted on
11/22/2022 3:13:39 PM PST
by
Hostage
(Article V)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
11/22/2022 3:15:07 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
To: nickcarraway
It might be. In the time I am sure he had many portraits done of himself. It was a thing back then.... before selfies and such. There might be a couple more out there.
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posted on
11/22/2022 3:16:58 PM PST
by
CJ Wolf
( what is scarier than offensive words? Not being able to say them. )
To: nickcarraway
what is the AE 44 in the top left corner mean? Anyone?
And the name plate? shakeFpeare?
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posted on
11/22/2022 3:17:16 PM PST
by
redshawk
( I want my red balloon. https://youtu.be/VexKSRKoWQY)
To: chajin
He was going through his Toshiro Mifune phase.
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posted on
11/22/2022 3:17:34 PM PST
by
Larry Lucido
(Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
11/22/2022 3:17:44 PM PST
by
CivilWarBrewing
(Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
To: chajin
“Please tell me that isn’t a man bun...”
There is NO WAY that he can be gay. But then again, he was certainly ‘creative’.
So who knows...
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posted on
11/22/2022 3:18:00 PM PST
by
BobL
(By the way, low tonight in Latvia: 21 degrees, burrr!)
To: CivilWarBrewing
I once heard a Korean woman pronounce “Shakespeare” as “sex appeal”
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posted on
11/22/2022 3:19:07 PM PST
by
CivilWarBrewing
(Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
11/22/2022 3:20:44 PM PST
by
Libloather
(Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
To: redshawk
Middle English often replaced “S” with “F”.
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posted on
11/22/2022 3:21:17 PM PST
by
Hostage
(Article V)
To: nickcarraway
“The canvas is being sold by its anonymous owner by private treaty without an auction and is currently on show at Grosvenor House hotel in west London.”
Sounds like the start of a good art heist movie. 🎬
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posted on
11/22/2022 3:22:37 PM PST
by
CJ Wolf
( what is scarier than offensive words? Not being able to say them. )
To: BobL
iirc...he used all men in all his plays...so a little cross dressing was happening..
To: nickcarraway
Looks like the same portrait of every English man from Elizabethan times. Either they all looked alike or the portrait painters were just copying the same painting over and over again.
To: chajin
Probably more like what a pompadour looks like if you only have a little strip of hair left in the middle.
To: Sacajaweau; BobL
It wasn’t just Shakespeare. In Elizabethan theatre, the roles of women were plaid by boys.
To: redshawk
It means he was “aged 44 years” when the portrait was made.
To: CivilWarBrewing
To: redshawk
Oh and what looks like an “F” in Shakespeare is just another way they used to write the letter “s”.
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