Renaissance - French word, Italian movement (allegedly). Why use a French word for something indelibly associated with Florence and Rome? I guess Renascita doesn't have the same ring to it and sounds more like something you'd do in the loo.
Overheard while watching Waldemar Wossisface's (you know who I mean - fat blob who dresses in black and wobbles rather than walks) BBC programme on the Renaissance:
Hay: "The people in Flemish paintings never look happy. Mrs and Mrs Arnolfini look positively glum."
Chairman: "I'm sure the long-lost Arnolfini Divorce is languishing in someone's attic waiting to be rediscovered."
Hay: "I always think Mrs Arnolfini looks pregnant."
Chairman: "Shotgun wedding?"
I always find Renaissance images of babies rather strange, they look more like perfectly scaled down adults rather than the Jelly Baby misshapes they actually are.
Overheard while watching Waldemar Wossisface's (you know who I mean - fat blob who dresses in black and wobbles rather than walks) BBC programme on the Renaissance:
Hay: "The people in Flemish paintings never look happy. Mrs and Mrs Arnolfini look positively glum."
Chairman: "I'm sure the long-lost Arnolfini Divorce is languishing in someone's attic waiting to be rediscovered."
Hay: "I always think Mrs Arnolfini looks pregnant."
Chairman: "Shotgun wedding?"
I always find Renaissance images of babies rather strange, they look more like perfectly scaled down adults rather than the Jelly Baby misshapes they actually are.
1 comment:
Perhaps the painting was a wedding pressie and it took J v E eight months to get a sitting in his busy schedule.
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