Giovanni Paolo d’Agostino, Italian
Five Minutes Into Their Date, Sir Gerald Suddenly Realized That He and Lady Evelyn Had Absolutely Nothing in Common…Other Than Roughly 95% of Their DNA, ca. 1520
Oil on canvas
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Other than his possible 1490-1524 lifespan (or maybe that’s the years he flourished), I could find no information about this artist online. Perhaps someone fluent in Italian would be more successful.
/// These young folks were too busy to pose.
(Double portraits take time, goodness knows.)
So they had fashioned these
painted wax effigies
wearing wigs and the young peoples’ clothes.
/// Having been by the couple commissioned,
dummies were, by the painter, positioned
fairly close, face-to-face–
glass eyes “gaze” into space.
Almost lifelike; (like zombies auditioned).
/// In Firenze, two centuries ago,
(very long before Madame Tussaud),
figures like these were made,
and in churches displayed.
With these “bóti,” devotion they’d show.
/// Later on, wax would prove economical
for instruction in things anotomical.
Body parts made to scale,
and in gruesome detail,
looking corpse-like, macabre, (almost comical).
/// Since they both share the same face, (uncannily),
thoughts of mating make each simper clammily.
And it isn’t just quibbling—
my mate might be my sibling!
Marriage shouldn’t be all in the family.