And yet the vibrancy of, say, a Holbein makes me picture that period of history very much in colour.
Yeah, somehow Queen Elizabeth (the First, not the Second :D) shows up in my imagination in the splendid colours of a portrait by Nicholas Hilliard, whereas Queen Victoria will always be that hideous, serious-looking elderly lady to me, whose photograph once I saw in a school textbook. Pretty unfair, considering the fact that Victoria must have been quite beautiful in her youth, while Elizabeth never had to worry about the advent of a) old age and b) photorealism.
(BTW: Thanks for friending me! I've also put you on my friends' list now -- just don't expect to read anything interesting in my LJ... I should warn you that I use my account mainly for commenting in other people's journals, mostly unbidden. ;))
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Date: 2004-10-27 03:22 pm (UTC)Yeah, somehow Queen Elizabeth (the First, not the Second :D) shows up in my imagination in the splendid colours of a portrait by Nicholas Hilliard, whereas Queen Victoria will always be that hideous, serious-looking elderly lady to me, whose photograph once I saw in a school textbook. Pretty unfair, considering the fact that Victoria must have been quite beautiful in her youth, while Elizabeth never had to worry about the advent of a) old age and b) photorealism.
(BTW: Thanks for friending me! I've also put you on my friends' list now -- just don't expect to read anything interesting in my LJ... I should warn you that I use my account mainly for commenting in other people's journals, mostly unbidden. ;))