Renaissance Faces exhibit at the National Gallery in London

From Metro.co.uk

If portraits capture not just appearance but the soul then what are we to make of the cherubically grinning, charmingly animated features of a young Henry VIII? Guido Mazzoni’s Laughing Boy is believed to be a bust of the chubby-faced prince – and if the portrait’s soul-penetrating properties are to be believed, moral corruption seems a long way off.

Full article (short, but I chose this one because it has a nice photo of the bust mentioned above)

National Gallery website

2 Comments:

  1. Looks like a happy and loved little boy.

  2. Sort of … but young Henry also reminds me of South Park’s Eric Cartman…

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *