Looking at and commenting on the painting by Titian posted by Christy made me think of others of the masters who painted the real beauty of women - and not a perception of beauty designed by the cosmetic and diet industries. Of course I looked to Raphael and the first picture that came up was this absolute beauty.
Now the baby may appear to be a little sumo wrestler. He looks so heavy he makes me tired. The love captured here is complete. The mother is not the walking skeleton of today's magazine promotion. She's a beautiful, soft, fleshy woman. This is a scene of childhood. The memory of a mother's lap. The painting is beautiful and the memories are too.
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Me, too, I prefer soft fleshy women.
The stick figures we have running around today would hardly be worth the paint.
That baby makes me tired too. What a chunk.
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