Around 1638 the Italian painter Guido Reni (1575 - 1642) made this portrait.
It's probably a portrait of Artemisia (350 BC), a Carian princess, the sister and wife (!) of Mausolus.
The story goes that the dish, dissolved in liquid, contained ashes of Artemisia's deceased Mausolus, whom she loved dearly.
By drinking his ashes, Artemisia wanted to turn herself into a living tomb.
Whether this really happened, we will never know. But we can safely rule out the possibility that she ate bubble gum to go with it...
Art with a wink ;-)
The stylists at Art Heroes call my art style ‘Art with a Wink’. And I couldn't agree more. Life is serious enough as it is, don't you think? ;-)
I mainly make surrealist artworks and collages, because in those artstyles I can so wonderfully unleash my creativity and unbridled..
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