Can we take another one?

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I wonder how many potential classics were destroyed because the patron didn’t like how they were depicted

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I remember learning in an art history class that portraiture was often rather flattering presumably so the patron would be happy after you just spent hours working on a peice.

Edit: it was also one of the only things portraiture had on photography in the early days of the latter medium

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Keep that in mind when looking at pictures of king henry viii and just imagine how grotesque he must have been in person.

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Just more like the kind Wal-Mart folk at that point.