Summary
Many generations of the Borromeo family are represented by the portraits that line the walls of the palace they built in the 16th century on Isola Madre, an island in Italy's beautiful Lake Maggiore.
Big noses ran in their family. It's a trait that must have presented a professional challenge to one painter after the next. Looking at the pictures made it clear that artists had employed various creative tricks to try to hide the all-too apparent.See the full content of this document
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Beauty Nose No Bounds
One of the noble counts was depicted in half light, holding a candle before him. But even then the shadow cast by h...
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