6: *Head Tilt*





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Top to bottom, left to right (briefly):

  • Sebastiano Ceccarini, Portrait of a Noble Lady with a Lapdog
  • Jill McVarish, Little Red Riding Hood
  • Jan van Eyck, The Arnolfini Portrait
  • Erasmus Quellinus II and Jan Fyt, Portrait of a Young Boy
  • Diego Velazquez, Equestrian Portrait of Margarita of Austria
  • Sano di Pietro, St. Jerome and the Lion
https://everydayartcritique.blogspot.com/2017/12/portrait-of-count-anton-lamberg.html

A smattering of paintings demonstrating how things can go wrong, even for competent-to-talented artists, when human and animals faces/bodies are brought into a painting at the same time. In some of these the humans look better than the animals, in some the other way around, and in a couple the artist is clearly up to snuff technically but all the faces look weird.

Art is hard.