Same is true for Handel, he wouldn’t look out of place down the pub watching football. That powdered wig does a lot of heavy lifting making him look contemporary to his era and class.
Modern day monarch.
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Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 months ago Pixel_Jock_17@piefed.ca 2 months ago
Kick the bawwlllll!!!
ClockworkOtter@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Why would we trust AI over someone who was painting the person right in front of them?
Canadian_anarchist@lemmy.ca 2 months ago Portraits were definitely “improved” by artists to make the person look thinner, paler, etc. The happier the customer, the more likely they would get work within their elite inner circle (portraits were a luxury, not common for most of history).
They were done by skilled people with training though. Early paints were not easy to use as they were not nicely mixed in metal tubes. They had to be manually mixed pigments and binders (many containing lead and mercury).
Rothe@piefed.social 2 months ago
It’s a joke. It is not actually an AI picture, but a photo of some random guy who slightly resembles him.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Henry the 8th was hot as hell as a young, fit adult. There are libraries of vague, contemporaneous homoeroticism preserved to verify it. The pic on the right significantly decreases his attractiveness in a way that feels almost antagonistic.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Wasn’t being chubby seen as an attractive trait back then because it implied wealth?
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 2 months ago
No, this is some apocryphal nonsense that became a “fun fact” spread by everyone.
ClockworkOtter@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I don’t think his most attractive period was considered to be once he became obese
- Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ok, the picture is of him from when he’s older
PugJesus@piefed.social 2 months ago
De gustibus non disputandem est!
undergroundoverground@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Tbf, if I lived around someone as psychotic as Henry VII, I’d flatter him too.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 2 months ago
Apparently, Henry loved to joust.
He probably took a lot of concussions.
Might explain a lot.
https://www.webmd.com/brain/ss/slideshow-concussions-brain-injuries
Amputret@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago True, but I’mean, people age.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Into having larger, more expressive features? It’s fairly uncommon for tiny mouthed Clint Eastwood to shift into tiny mouthed Gabriel Iglesias
DeadPixel@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Hasn’t aged a day!
saltnotsugar@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ran into this absolute unit in big tesco.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
I suspect he would have less flesh today.
GraniteM@lemmy.world 2 months ago
“What would Henry VIII say if he were alive today?”
“Help help let me out it’s dark and I can’t breathe in here, help help help!”
CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world 2 months ago
PugJesus@piefed.social 2 months ago
dear lord, you did me a spook
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
“Predicts”
brem@lemmy.world 2 months ago This is the face of a man who hosts a cooking show based on the premise of finding a wife he can later divorce or behead.
huppakee@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They’re the same picture
Etterra@discuss.online 2 months ago
Yeah, he’d look like a chud now too.