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cham
04-21-2012, 09:24 PM
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2133003/18th-century-painting-sold-New-York-woman-hat-actually-man--making-earliest-known-picture-transvestite.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevalier_d'Eon

CatOfNineTails
04-22-2012, 06:08 AM
Check out Hermaphroditus. ;)

Cant post links yet. :no:

cham
04-22-2012, 06:28 AM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermaphroditus

ila
04-22-2012, 09:51 AM
Instead of a painting of a 'somewhat manly middle-aged lady', Mould and his team discovered that the face revealed 'a distinctive 5 O'clock shadow' according to MSNBC.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2133003/18th-century-painting-sold-New-York-woman-hat-actually-man--making-earliest-known-picture-transvestite.html#ixzz1smTGgVMA

Would the part in bold above be like the doctors that some years ago looked at the Mona Lisa and decided that she had jaundice because there was a yellow tinge on her face.

I wonder if these "experts" realize that a painting is not the same as a photograph.

Otherwise it's an interesting article. Thanks, cham.

franalexes
04-22-2012, 09:54 AM
Would the part in bold above be like the doctors that some years ago looked at the Mona Lisa and decided that she had jaundice because there was a yellow tinge on her face.

I wonder if these "experts" realize that a painting is not the same as a photograph.

Otherwise it's an interesting article. Thanks, cham.

I wonder if I had a painting of Ila, nude. Would the "paint" harden?:innocent:

Cocksucker
05-14-2012, 06:42 PM
What a hottie:cool: