The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-12
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"A knew it, did not even tho have seen copies
all the pictures shakspere in the celebrated Bur-
London the gold earring nsistent bit
in the picture and SO itself at once upon the
attention the picture everything is
reduced to color the feature has hitherto
labeled because of
indications intellectually. the fore
high fairly domelke in it's dimensions but
of the suggestive of the mind that
created his immortal plays His brown and mild his
face as expressive of one could possibly
On the other picture hanging close at
hand, shows much intellectual far as looks
these two portraits, the first time
rather conviction that Bacon really did write
of shaksperes plays than it be proved he did,
AS Mary of Scotland Looked Her Painters
a foregone conclusion you interested
in Mary Queen of Scots You would hardly be real Junory if
Scotland when was young person, and seem never
to have lost interest Beginning with portraits of her
in the National Gallery pictures wherever
it goes saying portraits of
Elizabeth equal interest because the lives of the
two women, closely interviewer.
1t quest when ali told for the beauty Mary His
dWes that point that thinks
gloriously
OF pictures that have ever seen suggests great beauty as
know in these days thought this might be less
the fault of the print feast
unaloyed beauty forth in the original paint
ings But found it. Compared with Elizabeth, Mary
was much attractive but not picture that
they numbered her passing good
looks according to a lenent standard of to-day.
Moreover called years picture Of
Mary has been found to be that of her mother Mary Of
Lorraine. The earliest picture of Mary in the National
Portrait Gallery shows her bride the wife of Francis
H. of France. She is immature girl and not nearly
attractive she is widow in the white and the
caught In fact all, this
picture widow the most attractive the work
being delicate the white veil extremely beco
Elsewhere in the gallery, pictures of later
period there is by Oudry showing her during her i'm
prsonment of her and disappointed
billions plainly Her color she is thinner of
lip and her given place to angles and hoows
But the difference between Mary the and Mary the
is especially in two pictures hanging
above the other the Bodeian library at Oxford The
WOmanhOod
sparkling they show consciousness
of power, both and Her mouth is
perfect cupid's bow eyes delicious brown eye
beautifully marked and perfect in shape The lower
probably Imprisonment, perhaps
shortly execution. brown of is
the but there deep shadows under them; her
cheeks have color, lips
thin In word, her bloom is
vanished her look Of It is the face of
had unconsciousy acknowledged her utter defeat
Ueiness Of the Virgin queen.
Elizabeth Queen Elizabeth Since
her portraits, her much
knows.and she also just about of the
homeliest that could be imagined She had high
forehead, beak of eyebrows that
suggested portraits
wholly lacking in the rest her chin pointed and
her abnormaly below the No wonder she
steful all her life to women who were more beautiful
within her circle. No wonder, that is,
DESTROYS that love and admiration should be given her as
rather than because she The glory
of court dress ager with the rarest of Jewels the BRAY
est array OF ropes OF pearls and priceless Jewels OF all
kinds the royal auburn hair and the sceper
globe in long, aperng fingers not disguise the
fact that anything but very homely woman.
1t not all be the fault of unsled painters for If the
painting advanced the
that have of shaspere there should be better pic
Of both these if the subjects themselves
it. recognition for painter to linn
such man Shakspere but how much more incentive
attractive pictures possible of the
great herself especially such van great Why
oody Mary the daughter of Katherine OF Aragon and the
predecessor Elizabeth the throne handsomer
daughter of beautiful Anne Boleyn Tho for
matter Katherine Of Aragon herself to have
beautiful woman than Anne Boleyn. Anne OF
might easily have been fascinating, but his
tory claimed that infinitely beauti
Henry and the pictures dc
not show it.
Hampton Court palace there is full length lfe-size
portrait painted by Zucchero
dreadful thing in the
trait line that perpetrated 1t is not the dress
wholly the lack OF the fat ungang feet
of kinona, short and scant, is
pearls gems the TALL nondescrpt headdress is
but all this onl,
to of beauty that shown in all thu