There are enough articles about photoshopping butts and bellies, fingers and feet, two right legs and missing armpits. It is all revealed HERE. I am fascinated by how sloppy the mistakes are. For example, in one, LeBron James has no bottom part of a body.
And then I came across this version of photoshopping. The before was the supposed portrait of Isabella d' Medici but it turns out that was the photoshopped painting. Then it was was restored. The 'after' is the original painting. 130-year-old paint was removed from the top of 400-year-old paint. What a difference there is.
The makeover occurred in the 19th century. There isn't an explanation for why it was overpainted. The article covering the story had this to say:
'Originally identified as a Bronzino painting of Eleanor of Toledo, who married into the Medici family, the portrait looked more like the artwork on a Victorian biscuit tin lid than the output of the Italian Mannerist. Lulu Lippincott, the CMA’s curator of fine arts, convinced that the piece was no Old Master, passed it along to chief conservator Ellen Baxter, asking the conservation studio to confirm that it was a fake." They were delighted with the results of the activity.
And then there is Isabella's story - to me a tragic one. Isabella was the daughter of Cosimo I de' Medici. Her marriage to the powerful Roman Orsinis family's Paolo Giodordano I Orsini was arranged when she was 11 and they married when she was 16, but her husband immediately left and went on about his responsibilities. She stayed in her father's household. Her affair with the cousin of her husband turned out to be a big problem. When her father died, she died shortly after, supposedly murdered by her husband on the instructions of her own brother.
That's a lot of intrigue.
I found this the other day and thought it looked like pretty jewellery. It uses the Flaming Pear plug-ins to create the patterns from boat paint grunge.
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