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Sunday, June 29, 2014

Interesting Article: Isabella de Medici Portrait



Restoration experts reveal the REAL face of murdered Renaissance princess beneath layers of paint - added by Victorians to make her face conform to their ideal of beauty

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2671679/Peeling-layers-Painting-murdered-Renaissance-princess-revealed-beneath-layers-paint-added-centuries-later-make-face-conform-Victorian-beauty-ideals.html#ixzz362HLQflk




Portrait of Isabella de' Cosimo I de Medici, c. 1574 (before restoration)Portrait after removal of overpainting
Images from: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2671679/Peeling-layers-Painting-murdered-Renaissance-princess-revealed-beneath-layers-paint-added-centuries-later-make-face-conform-Victorian-beauty-ideals.html
Posted by Fionn O'Mara at 11:17 PM
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Labels: Daily Mail, Eleanora de Toldeo, Isabella de Medici, real face under portrait, Victorian overpainting

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