Word: venusized
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...show how the unwashed ladies of the Renaissance looked at their best, Mrs. Thomas has sketchily copied France's Diane de Poitiers, a German artist's Venus, naked except for picture hat and necklace, and a Botticelli model. Facing them, smart, stingy Queen Elizabeth of England, decked out to the ears, primps in a mirror, turns her back on the Spanish Armada...
Doubly interesting is your cut of the Venus of I'rhino [TIME, May 27], since it once caused Mark Twain to froth and seethe...
...come Mark Twain "became incensed" at the position of the left hand of Titian's Venus? All I can see in the left hand of the picture of Titian's Venus is a bunch of leaves-I can't see anything to become incensed over unless the leaves are poison...
TIME's cut was made from an old engraving which showed Venus in reverse...
...Florence's Pitti Gallery. The director got a curt notification to take it down and pack it for shipment to Paris. At the same time the director of the Uffizi, having read a similar command from Il Duce, was reluctantly packing Botticelli's masterpiece, The Birth of Venus, Michelangelo's Holy Family, Titian's Flora. At the Bargello it was Verrochio's David. At Milan's Brera it was Raphael's Nuptials of the Virgin and Bellini's Pietà. From Padua, Giotto's Crucifixion, elaborately and tenderly packed...