The Next 15 Buffy Portraits

[bettylabamba.livejournal.com]

Salut,

Here are planches 11 to 25 from Buffenoir's Portraits de Robespierre. I hope you all don't mind that I just listed links instead of posting the usual thumbnails. Tell me if there're any broken links.



Planche 11. That's some serious neckwear to go with those serious cheekbones.



Planche 12.
The famous striped coat. He looks like my cat in this portrait. Meow.



Planche 13.
I would look pissed too, if someone bothered me while reading. Another one of my favs.


Planche 14.



Planche 15.



Planche 16.
Nice nose. Detail here.



Planche 17.
I think this picture is too adorable. His hair looks like a big fluffy cake.


Planche 18.
I didn't like this picture at first, but then it grew on me.


Planche 18bis. Another favorite of mine.


Planche 19. A bust with the no pupils Roman thing going on.


Planche 20a. I want it!


Planche 20b. A bust with cheekbones that could cut glass.


Planche 21. A weirdly masculine bust which kind of disturbs me.


Planche 22. Nice gams there, Max.


Planche 23. Medallion with huge snoze.


Planche 24. Another medallion.


Planche 25. Medallion with Fabre-ish hair.

Comments

[kurotoshi.livejournal.com]

~ Thanks <333

[trf-chan.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :D

Wow...they seem to like to give him a big nose on medallions. O.o

Awww, I like Planche 18. :3 But what's that it says under it about Marat's sister?

Dude, planche 21. ...Why is he so pissed? D:

Ahaha. Those cheekbones in 20b are made of Win.

You know, the more of these you look at, the stranger it is to see all those descriptions of Maxime as being "ZOMG SO UGLY!!!!!1" But then, every revolutionary seems to be described that way, especially in books hostile towards the revolution (which is like, er, every mainstream English book D:). Like Mark Steel said in Vive la Revolution, if an American revolution was led now by Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, you'd have historians two hundred years later expounding on their terrible ugliness. XD

[bettylabamba.livejournal.com]

Awww, I like Planche 18. :3 But what's that it says under it about Marat's sister?

I looked it up and leguer [sorry, i don't know how to get the accent thingies on anything besides MSWord] means to bequeath, so I guess the picture was given by Marat's sis. Don't take my word for it, my french suuucks.

randomness: from looking at your icon, i have this vision of hugh laurie asking about Marat's sister

You know, the more of these you look at, the stranger it is to see all those descriptions of Maxime as being "ZOMG SO UGLY!!!!!1" But then, every revolutionary seems to be described that way, especially in books hostile towards the revolution (which is like, er, every mainstream English book D:). Like Mark Steel said in Vive la Revolution, if an American revolution was led now by Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, you'd have historians two hundred years later expounding on their terrible ugliness. XD

I am so Mark Steel's bitch. That book is first rate satire. Finally, a book that doesn't shit all over the FR calling it a big bloody mistake. *cough cough* Schama *cough* What's wrong with these fucking people? Sure it's easy to pass judgement and say "they should have done this or they should have done that". I don't think we can really attempt to understand what the mindset truley was 200 years ago --all that paranoia, all that fear, all that anger. I mean, how would the revolution have turned out if the starving and opressed people, and Robespierre, Danton, Saint-Just, Marat, Carnot, etc. etc. got together before they did anything and said "Hey, you know, we really should try to not to offend the feeeeelings of American and British history teachers who will be born in a few centuries. We don't want to offennnnd anyone. Let's all hold hands and be friends and smoke some shit with Marie Antoinette & Sophia Coppola." Oh man, I just went off on a long mutha rant.

Nowhere is the dictum "every history is a history of the present" more true than in the case of the French Revolution: its historiographic reception always closely mirrored the twists and turns of political struggles. The identifying mark of all kinds of conservatives is its flat rejection: the French Revolution was a catastrophe from its very beginning, the product of the godless modern mind, it is to be interpreted as God's punishment for the humanity's wicked ways, so its traces should be undone as thoroughly as possible. The typical liberal attitude is a differentiated one: its formula is "1789 without 1793." In short, what the sensitive liberals want is a decaffeinated revolution, a revolution which doesn't smell of a revolution. --Slavoj Zizek (http://www.lacan.com/zizrobes.htm)

Seriously, I think Maximilien was quite attractive (even with the pock marks). Eh, i like the skinny sickly hipster types who dress nicer than me. In every picture he has these large almond shaped eyes that are fascinating and such a distinguished nose.

[jesta-ariadne.livejournal.com]

Ack, these are amazing. The CHEEKBONES I tell you.

[bettylabamba.livejournal.com]

oh man, i'm so sorry. i realized i hit the wrong function and enabled the comment screening

I know, those CHEEKBONES! No wonder he had such a big following from teh ladies.

[spurnedambition.livejournal.com]

OMSB yay. You can never have too much of Maxime portraits. ^^

He looks like my cat in this portrait. Meow.
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*It's idea-generating time!*

Slavoj Zizek?
Is he the guy who wrote the introduction in the book that had Robespierre's terror speech that I saw on Amazon?

[bettylabamba.livejournal.com]

*Ooo, I love a good idea!*

Yup, that's the same guy.

[toi-marguerite.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I love 22.