Saturday, March 24, 2012

Ah!

Behold! George Villiers, first Duke of Buckingham, as painted by Peter Paul Rubens in 1625. If you had questions, and this portrait doesn't answer them, you're an imbecile.


Yet it needs be said that the embonpoint suggested in the depiction of Mr. Villiers' jowls was possibly not evident to anybody but the artist, whose defect, if he had one, was making his subjects look fat, even when they were slender and muscular (as Villiers certainly was).