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 weeks ago Pixel_Jock_17@piefed.ca 2 weeks ago
Kick the bawwlllll!!!
ClockworkOtter@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Why would we trust AI over someone who was painting the person right in front of them?
Canadian_anarchist@lemmy.ca 2 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks 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 weeks ago
Wasn’t being chubby seen as an attractive trait back then because it implied wealth?
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No, this is some apocryphal nonsense that became a “fun fact” spread by everyone.
ClockworkOtter@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I don’t think his most attractive period was considered to be once he became obese
- Skullgrid@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Ok, the picture is of him from when he’s older
PugJesus@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
De gustibus non disputandem est!
undergroundoverground@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Tbf, if I lived around someone as psychotic as Henry VII, I’d flatter him too.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 2 weeks 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 weeks ago True, but I’mean, people age.
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks 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 weeks ago
Hasn’t aged a day!
saltnotsugar@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Ran into this absolute unit in big tesco.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
I suspect he would have less flesh today.
GraniteM@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 weeks ago
PugJesus@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
dear lord, you did me a spook
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
“Predicts”
brem@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 weeks ago
They’re the same picture
Etterra@discuss.online 2 weeks ago
Yeah, he’d look like a chud now too.