By: yoink
Hmmmm...looking at the pictures and reading that article, I think Duncan-Jones may have successfully debunked this 'find.' That or started a new line in the "who was Shakespeare really?" wars. Thomas...
View ArticleBy: beingdaddy
Shakespeare scholar Katherine Duncan-Jones has cast some doubt on the portrait: "An authentic portrait of Sir Thomas Overbury (1581–1613) was bequeathed to the Bodleian Library in Oxford in 1740. This...
View ArticleBy: yoink
But obviously this art historian's "own feelings" carry more weight than that. The art historian's "feelings" played no part in the argument for the authenticity of the portrait. As to Shakespeare's...
View ArticleBy: Pallas Athena
From the Time article: "The Cobbe portrait will show people a man who was of high social status," says Wells. "He's very well dressed. He's wearing a very beautiful and expensive Italian lace collar. A...
View ArticleBy: RedEmma
ahem. no mention of the Chandos portrait? that's my favorite, though apparently unprovable to be certain.
View ArticleBy: zardoz
I have an affinity for conspiracy theories dealing with famous people who never actually existed. Jesus is the top dog in this field, but there's a fair amount of conclusive evidence that Shakespeare,...
View ArticleBy: yoink
The third link answers most of the questions raised in this thread, and actually makes it sound pretty possible that this could be legit. The Wriothesley connection is certainly suggestive.
View ArticleBy: Artaud
Thanks for this. As a lover of the Bard (no, not a lover), I always get a chill up the spine when tantalising evidence of his life is unearthed. And thanks, effword, for the MoL link.
View ArticleBy: taz
Wow, that article was so very painful... tons of awful, distracting links that have nothing to do with the article, and failure to link the items that do. Talk about the engraving, but don't include...
View ArticleBy: Abiezer
Yes officer, that's him. Show me on the cognitive model where the poet touched you...
View ArticleBy: bonobothegreat
The Sanders portrait was painted by one of The Globe scenery painters and seems just as likely to be Shakespeare as the one featured in the story (but of course, it doesn't happen to be in England...
View ArticleBy: sexyrobot
perhaps he is on Facebook. well, it's kinda likely considering the inscripton on the painting translates to something like "OMG!! BFF 4-ever!!"
View ArticleBy: steef
They've also uncovered the foundations of Shakespeare's first theatre (before it was dismantled and moved to build The Globe), and discovered a piece of pottery with a mysterious portrait (which no one...
View ArticleBy: thebergfather
History records that, before or after he died, he found himself before God and he asked: "I, who have been so many men in vain, want to be one man – myself." The voice of God replied from a whirlwind:...
View ArticleBy: DU
Well, if you look at what until recently was thought to be Shakespeare it seems pretty clear that the new portrait is at least supposed to be the same person and that if one was copied from the other,...
View ArticleBy: sbutler
I thought I read somewhere -- and now I can't remember where -- that in old portraits, rosy cheeks were the polite way of showing that the subject had pox marks (from surviving smallpox). Anyone else...
View ArticleBy: Postroad
I have a portrait of our graduationn class, and in my class there was a guy we called Billy Shakes. I seem to recall his real name was William Shakespeer or Chakispeer and he loved poetry and playing...
View ArticleBy: ricochet biscuit
Looking at it, Cobbe felt certain the Folger painting was a copy of the one in his family's collection. He asked Wells, an old friend, for his help in authenticating it. (See the top 10 literary...
View ArticleBy: Outlawyr
They also miss opportunities for significant links. Annoying indeed. But an interesting post.
View ArticleBy: Joe Beese
"A lot of people have the wrong image of Shakespeare, and I'm pleased that the picture confirms my own feelings — this is the portrait of a gentleman." Oh, there's some rigorous science at work here.
View ArticleBy: mannequito
At the very least it does appear to be his disembodied head, floating on a magic carpet.
View ArticleBy: Pater Aletheias
Good grief, I hate the way Time (read about newsmagazines) keeps interrupting the flow of the story (for more on plot, check this out) with quasi-related hyperlinks (click here to learn about bad design).
View ArticleBy: DU
Could Time have links of any less relevance at the ends of their paragraph? (Read more about failed business models.)
View ArticleBy: GuyZero
All those guys looked like Joseph Fiennes, so it's impossible to tell which is which anyway.
View ArticleBy: Astro Zombie
It's pretty clearly Andrew Jackson. I know it's hard to recognize him without his gorgeous mane of windswept hair.
View ArticleShakespeare, is that you?
Is this a portrait of William Shakespeare?The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust has just announced the identification of the sitter in a portait as William Shakespeare, painted from life. Is it really him?...
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