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To: AnAmericanMother
Glad you showed Rembrandt's 'Feast of Belshazzar' painting. I needed some visual relief after all this Precious Moments, Thomas Kincaid stuff.

Here's an interesting side-note about this painting: it is one of the few (only?) Rembrandt paintings where he screwed up human anatomy. Note the woman in red on the right. Look at the way her left arm attaches to the shoulder. That said, this painting is a marvel of confident brushwork and masterful handling of materials. The thick impasto defining the king's jewelry is real enough to steal.
418 posted on 08/30/2006 11:11:30 AM PDT by Rembrandt_fan
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To: Rembrandt_fan
I disagree. If you look at the woman in the left foreground, she's wearing elaborate sleeves with enormous puffs, set well down off the shoulder -- basically Italian Renaissance in style.

What looks like the left shoulder joint in the woman in red is actually the top puff of the sleeve, slightly flattened.

So Rembrandt is safe -- he painted what the sleeve actually looked like, bent across and crushed by the movement of the woman's arm inside.

427 posted on 08/30/2006 11:21:22 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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