Mar 7
Palma Vecchio
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Palma Vecchio
Am I the history I have endured?
do you think there were any art world Palma Vecchio stans in the iwtv universe who got mad over Daniel calling him a rapist. actually do you think there were any IRL stans bothered by the same thing. does Vecchio even have stans.
Arun/Amadeo/Armand Portraiture Musings & Questions
Armand in 1948* says "Nobody has painted me in over 400 years"
He either means that 1)he hasn't been painted since he was kidnapped by the Children of Satan or 2)he wasn't painted since he was turned at the age of 27.
Armand hasn't been painted since he was kidnapped by the coven. By 1548, the coven must have set fire to the palazzo and therefore Marius was not painting him or arranging for him to do painting model work.
Armand has not been painted since he was turned at the age of 27. This means neither Marius nor anyone else has painted him since 1527-32 (based on the dating of the Palma Vecchio painting) or since 1523 (based on his stated age in the season 1 finale)
Armand mentions being "thicker in the forearms" before "being struck with illness" so perhaps he was self conscious he wasn't a desirable portrait model anymore for Marius. It's not clear what vampirism, does to restore health or how much it reverses effects of wasting away. Even if it restores a person to full physical health, I'm sure the self perception lingered. We look at his beautiful pleading face during this monologue, etched with the tiniest expression lines. The painters have whitewashed his face and features out so his gym thicc 20 year old body (the Renaissance version) can subbed in and attached to other people's faces. His body has been donated in kind.
But can you truly say that you've been painted in a (High Renaissance) portrait as the subject, in a position meant to show piety and devotion as a mark of honor as the donor, if you are rendered unrecognizable?
Can you say you've been captured in a photographic portrait if you incidentally happen to be in a portrait your current situationship/companion/boyfriend took of your mutual (ghost) ex?
Armand says to Daniel "photos don't lie but they don't capture the full truth either". Did he really mean that or did he calculate that Daniel would respond best to that viewpoint?
THE MARQUIS WOLFKILLER PORTRAIT
And if nobody has painted Armand in over 400 years, how old is this portrait that hangs in the theatre until its burning in 1940s?
And who painted it? Who commissioned it? Was it Nicolas, who we see fiddling away in Armand's flashback? Was it Magnus? Was it Armand? Or some other portrait painter?
And if it's Armand, who says nobody has painted him since the 1500s, what does it mean that Armand painted a portrait of Lestat in his fur lined (Wolfkiller) red cloak , given to him by Nicolas de Lenfent?
We neither see him create visual art in 1940s nor in 2022 Dubai. And Armand might be the donor in that Palma Vecchio painting, but he had no input in the subject, payment, or his portrayal. And as far as we know he has never commissioned a portrait of himself or Louis.
WHY DOES DANIEL SURVIVE?
Perhaps Daniel survived to the end of season 2 simply because the interviews and the resulting book were a portrait, an unflattering one perhaps, that allowed Armand to be seen, instead of merely portrayed, even if he's not the star of them. For someone like Armand, a journalist trying to figure them out, instead of just turning them into a (bit) role in their fantasy, by parsing what they say and do and where they trip up, is focus. And attention. And such attention can feel like love if you've never gotten it or have been starved of it.
Palma Vecchio - Resting Venus, c. 1520
A variation based on Giorgione's Sleeping Venus.
"A Blonde Woman" (ca. 1520) by Palma Vecchio
This half-length depiction of a woman in loosened white chemise with a dark green mantle, holding some flowers, has been interpreted as an idealised representation of female beauty (sometimes in connection with the Roman goddess Flora), and as an actual portrait of either a gentlewoman or a courtesan.
Adoration of the Shepherds with a Donor (c. 1520–1525) by Palma Vecchio... aka the painting with a 20-year-old Armand before he became a vampire, as we IWTV stans would now and forever say after tonight.