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reading a collection of essays about Art and Artists, titled Nothing If Not Critical by Robert Hughes.
he's a highly respected writer - his knowledge is vast and his essays are fun to read.
one of the essays was about Sir Joshua Reynolds, a portrait painter.
everyone who was anyone in the 1700s posed for him.
anyway, i thought this part was quite funny.
"When Reynolds depicted high literary tragedy, as in his scene from Dante Count Hugolino and His Children in the Dungeon, he produced bathos.
The count, realizing that he must eat his offspring or starve, wears the peevish look of one who would have preferred fettuccine."
this is the painting he was talking about:
lol - cannot unsee the fettuccine.
but anyway, Reynolds' portraits were really nice.
like this one.
