Thursday, January 14, 2010

When did they have time to sit for these portraits?

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4 comments:

  1. Note that all of the portraits depict physiognomies with hooked noses. Rather disturbing.

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  2. True, but maybe the artist himself had a hooked nose. (See artscholar.org to see what I mean.)
    --Phil

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  3. From what I understand about that Baal Shem Tov portrait, it's actually of a fifteenth century Spanish rabbi, and he didn't have a hooked nose.

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  4. You mean this Baal Shem Tov portrait?

    It's a painting of the Baal Shem of London.

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