okay is there any photograph in history that deserves to be painstakingly rendered in oils and hung in a gilt frame in the Louvre more than the threesome photoshoot from that production of Twelfth Night with Anne Hathaway tho
like…dude…Caravaggio doesn’t hold a single candle to this shit………
I have nothing to add and this doesn’t directly relate to most of what I talk about but damn there’s just so much nuance and emotion going on here, it’s a stunning image and I’m staring at it
Random factoid: that sword is a mortuary hilted broadsword. The style is from the first half of the 17th century and that particular model is sold by Hanwei (or was, hanwei got bought in the last few years I think)