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Family of Darius before Alexander by TIEPOLO, Giovanni Battista

https://www.wga.hu/html_m/t/tiepolo/gianbatt/3_1740s/041darius.html

Tags: #alexandriana #art
Date added: Jan. 25, 2022, 4:52 a.m.
Description: just read an essay that hypothesized that the weird proportions of Alexander and Hephaestion in this painting were in imitation of the beauty ideal of castrati at the time