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Shakespeare portrait identified

Started by Athena, March 10, 2009, 11:18:34 AM

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Athena

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Carl Heinz

The article at http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1883770,00.html has what appears to be an uncropped version of the picture.
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DonaCatalina

I wish I could find a nice big scan.
The doublet details are driving me crazy.
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Carl Heinz

I saved the picture from the Time article and printed a full page picture from it.  Not too much pixeling.
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Lord Figaro

But will this change the image most people have of the famous bard?
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Carl Heinz

Probably not.  The article indicates that most available pictures are probably based on copies of this original.
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Athena

I finally found a larger image. He was quite striking. Handsome and well dressed, or as a blog I read so eloquently put it, he was a babe.  :)

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DonaCatalina

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Portrait of the bard painted at age 46

The collar on the other portrait makes me wonder if it actually is contemporary with this portrait.
The first portait makes me think of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham.
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Rowan MacD

  The same style of collar is in more than one portrait of the Earl of Southampton, the bards' sole patron.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wriothesley,_3rd_Earl_of_Southampton

There is interesting speculation that Shakespeare was enamored of the young earl, who was a very pretty young man.
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Quote from: Rowen MacD on October 11, 2010, 03:07:01 PM
  The same style of collar is in more than one portrait of the Earl of Southampton, the bards' sole patron.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wriothesley,_3rd_Earl_of_Southampton

There is interesting speculation that Shakespeare was enamored of the young earl, who was a very pretty young man.

If you look at the second picture on that page, he looks very much like Eric Idle from Monty Python... ;D
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Don_Juan_deCordoba

Quote from: Rowen MacD on October 11, 2010, 03:07:01 PM
  The same style of collar is in more than one portrait of the Earl of Southampton, the bards' sole patron.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Wriothesley,_3rd_Earl_of_Southampton

There is interesting speculation that Shakespeare was enamored of the young earl, who was a very pretty young man.
This makes you wonder if the Earl commisioned the portrait of Shakespeare which was most recently identified. There is a striking resemblance between the two men in that portrait that you don't see in Shakespeare otherwise.
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