Francesco Beda, Italian
“Yes, I Know You Could Swear You’ve Seen It Somewhere Before, But I Think I Just Have One of Those Vases,” Date Unkown
Oil on canvas
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Info, or links that point to more info, about this artist can be found here (archived if necessary), here, here (if truncated, can be read in full for free on Fridays), here, here, here, and here (Google translated), perhaps in addition to what’s in his Wikipedia page.
/// The large urn started out as pure white.
In this room. that’s a huge oversight:
Bright designs grace each plate
near forms gold and ornate.
With The Art Lesson they’ll set things right.
/// Jacques, her teacher, had painted a scene
and designs in gold, pink, rose and green
on one half of the urn,
and now she was to learn
what to paint on the half that’s pristine.
/// The gold leaf at the neck and the base
don’t yet go all around her new vase.
He advises her how
to apply more paint now
so the back will match up with the face.
/// There was one lesson, which, to her shock,
was not taught by this fop, Monsieur Jacques.
When you’re painting with oil,
your silk dress you may spoil
if you don’t cover up with a smock.