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Renaissance masters did not paint fat women as art, they were the world's first cartoons
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 63483995:MV8yNjc4MDU4XzQ2OTk4NDc5XzdCRTlGRTNG] [quote:Anonymous Coward 64423470:MV8yNjc4MDU4XzQ2OTk4MzM5XzFBQ0EyREJF] You can't tell me these fat women were admired when Leonardo Da Vinci had drawn the portrait of a perfectly-proportioned man. In fact, I know having a body that was well=proportioned was considered the golden ratio and was to be strived for. Fat men were rare and considered deviant--why were not fat women? [/quote] Because since times of old, men how shown off their wealth by "decorating" their women with signs of luxury. Sometimes they "wore" those signs of luxury themselves, but for whatever reason, a lot of how men have always communicated their wealth was through the luxury they could afford to have their women display. So, David could be perfectly fit (most healthy looking), but still be wealthy. He could show off his ability to get massive amounts of food by his ginormous, silk-wrapped, pearl-covered wife. But David is supposed to be more mythical, like an ideal male, not a specific rich guy. Kind of like female mythical creatures, like the 3 graces. The 3 graces weren't usually *that* large either, because they didn't necessarily need wealth, since they were spirits, and not people. Generally nude "ideal" figures are different from images of well-dressed wealthy people. And I've seen plenty of fat rich guys in paintings. [/quote]
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Every single time I go to an art museum I see these well-done paintings by the masters and some do portray very obese women in nature settings.
Then I have to endure some docent who raps on forever about how in the old days men loved fat women, and being fat was the sign of beauty.
I believe that these paintings are actually the world's first cartoons, and are meant to bring humor and irony into the dreadful medieval existence.
Who's with me?
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