And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Monday, June 20, 2022
French woman Isabelle Boyer who was Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi’s model for the Statue of Liberty.
Criminy! What an interesting bio. She married the found of Singer Sewing Machines (Isaac Merritt Singer) at 22, 30 years his junior. When he died, she remarried a notable musician who later became an Italian count (and she, a countess). Her basis as the model is disputed - but she would have been in her early 30's if it's true. There's certainly more than a passing resemblance.
Supposedly the photo is an AI computer creation by Amsterdam artist Bad Uterwijk, which disappointed me, but his recreations of other "photos" like Rembrandt, Michaelangelo's David, a few Roman emperors, people in famous artworks are pretty fascinating. Working from the statue, I'd say he captured the model's face really well. Far prettier than the real Isabelle Boyer-Singer, widow and heir to the sewing machine fortune.
We'll never know for sure....
ReplyDeleteI can definitely see her face in the Statue of Liberty. What beuatiful eyes she has.
ReplyDeleteUnmistakable.
ReplyDeleteCriminy! What an interesting bio. She married the found of Singer Sewing Machines (Isaac Merritt Singer) at 22, 30 years his junior. When he died, she remarried a notable musician who later became an Italian count (and she, a countess). Her basis as the model is disputed - but she would have been in her early 30's if it's true. There's certainly more than a passing resemblance.
DeleteIn the dictionary under "RBF"...
ReplyDeleteOnly the Children of Europa could produce this.
ReplyDeleteWhoever she is, she isn't happy about having her picture taken. Jeez.
ReplyDeleteShe is looking pretty owly.
DeleteSupposedly the photo is an AI computer creation by Amsterdam artist Bad Uterwijk, which disappointed me, but his recreations of other "photos" like Rembrandt, Michaelangelo's David, a few Roman emperors, people in famous artworks are pretty fascinating. Working from the statue, I'd say he captured the model's face really well. Far prettier than the real Isabelle Boyer-Singer, widow and heir to the sewing machine fortune.
ReplyDeleteMake that "Bas". (gotta love phone text keyboards...)
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