#a lot of medieval art of like famous ppl--portraits that arent full paintings--arent even bad per se
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I feel bad for Margaret of York that this portrait is always used to represent her
fuck ass proportions!!!
#she's got a shoulder-head ratio like a bratz doll v____v#even if you ignore the obviously-shrunken body the facial proportions are just clearly out of wack too#its so odd bc it's not as if portraits of the nobility from the late medieval period are normally this bad#a lot of medieval art of like famous ppl--portraits that arent full paintings--arent even bad per se#like the most well-known contemporary image of her father richard duke of york isnt BAD its just not a full painting#so it's quite unsatisfactory to a modern viewer wondering what they looked like#margaret's husband charles the bold duke of burgundy had several splendid paintings that i think many would be surprised at the quality of#text post#medieval art#every time i see this painting it makes me unhappy#i know there are other better images used to represent her but i dont see them as prominently so im guessing theyre not contemporary?#i havent done my research into them so dont take that as fact#usually in a case like this. if the most well-known image of someone is this fuck ugly#it's got the most valid historical provenance for representing them. which is a shame#no human being has ever looked like this portrait of margaret of york duchess of burgundy#it hurts. it's painful to behold
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