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*From the Portrait of Willem (Balthasar) Coymans by Frans Hals, circa 1645.
Teeny explanation about my mesmeriffic fascination with this painting:
During my junior year in high school, our tiny Art History class had received new textbooks that our professor, Dr. Earls, had had shipped from her old university. While everyone flipped to find pics of their favorites, I simply set the massive tome on its side and let it fall open. And that was staring back. That was the first time I ever met 'Balthasar Coymans' as the book inaccurately named him. 'Unremarkable' it had called him, other than being the first portrait in which the subject wasn't sitting faced forward.
Even under the dim projector lights in that darkened room, I could clearly see his eyes and they seemed to be just a hairsbreath away from blinking. It was startling, too. I felt that burning shock of familiarity that comes when you run into someone you've known intimately. Like when your nose itches at what it knows it will smell and your fingertips tingle with a touch you just can't quite recall... That magnetism of memory on a cellular level. *shudder* That painting still does that to me, ten years later. .....'unremarkable.' Pffft!!
Great artistry? No one else had seemed to be affected by it when we'd reached that portrait in class. So, no, I'm not inclined to think so. Besides, I simply loathe anything else Frans Hals has ever done. I much prefer Italian Renaissance. Hmmm, there's an idea... perhaps Michelangelo icons next. Heh.
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