tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396929165770979639.post8154814381585014755..comments2023-08-19T04:06:51.798-05:00Comments on Curious Portraits of Dead Elizabethans: A Curious Portrait of a Man Stabbed 57 Times That Might Actually Be A Famous Lost Painting Of William ShakespeareUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396929165770979639.post-27211363539116282602019-10-22T08:12:02.169-05:002019-10-22T08:12:02.169-05:00500 million! Yikes. I think the NPG is at times gu...500 million! Yikes. I think the NPG is at times guilty of institutional bias--especially in their debunking of the Flower portrait, but I've also found their staff to be incredibly helpful. Their boy is always going to be the Chandos portrait. So be it. I have nothing against the Chandos except it's a bad painting that doesn't interest me. The Marshall portrait I love--unlike the Chandos it has character--but I don't have the kind of mind that delves too deeply into Elizabethan conceits, because even if you solve the conceit correctly so few people will care. Once it gets complicated the battle is lost. (I'm too cynical.) But I would still love to read the graphics you mentioned on the Marshall if you can leave me the link. The Marshall reminds me of the Hampton Court (my fav Shakespeare). Many thanks. Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06621490105987263880noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8396929165770979639.post-3298293264778719752019-10-21T17:50:24.197-05:002019-10-21T17:50:24.197-05:00Interesting article.
The curious fact that they l...Interesting article.<br /><br />The curious fact that they lost the records is telling to say the least. The SBT and the Stratford town council have been doing things like this since the early 19th century so that tourist dollars can still roll in (it has been pegged at around $500 million annually, so I can see their reluctance to see reason). Now we can add the National Portrait Gallery to the list of those who never want to understand that they may not have gotten things right with regard to the "hard bard".<br /><br />In relation to the Marshall portrait, I posted a series of graphics on the ShakesVere Facebook group which show that it is really a puzzle portrait that has clues to the authorship of the poems inside the John Benson published book. If you are interested I could send them to you.<br /><br />Thanks for doing such good work.rroffelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03767963395501077608noreply@blogger.com