Renaissance painters kept adding a realistic fly to their portraits
by Ellsworth Toohey from Boing Boing on (#778VA)
Look closely at a lot of 15th- and 16th-century European portraits and you'll find a housefly sitting on the frame, the sitter's sleeve, or a page of an open book - painted so precisely it looks like a real insect that landed on the picture. - Read the rest
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