tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090287936167820877.post4505799355854101284..comments2024-03-24T07:16:41.217-07:00Comments on A World Elsewhere: The Shakespeare Death Mask and the Flower PortraitUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090287936167820877.post-70623745754126795722016-09-06T07:45:43.471-07:002016-09-06T07:45:43.471-07:00It's odd that it hasn't occurred to anyone...It's odd that it hasn't occurred to anyone, not least 'Oxfordians', that the mask may be that of the Earl of Oxford, Edward de Vere. It could quite easily be the face of the man who sat for the "Ashbourne portrait" (and several others, known and putative), which is almost certainly a defaced Cornelius Ketel portrait of the man. It is otherwise a strange coincidence that this particular mask was chosen to hoax/defraud the German gentleman to whom it was sold back in the late 18th C.Rainerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14411719599317046094noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090287936167820877.post-31459635513917265802015-12-18T12:26:27.685-08:002015-12-18T12:26:27.685-08:00As to Professor Hammerschmidt-Hummel’s researches ...As to Professor Hammerschmidt-Hummel’s researches concerning the six portraits of Shakespeare (including the death mask and the original Flower portrait) she has proved to be genuine in close collaboration with numerous experts, I should like to draw your attention to her website, especially to http://www.new.hammerschmidt-hummel.de/Pages/EN/AuthenticPortraits.html, as well as to two of the many reviews published by Shakespeare scholars and science correspondents on her books on the bard’s authentic images in respected periodicals. Cf. www.hammerschmidt-hummel.de/pdf_s/Mirak-Weißbach - And the Flower Portrait ... Hammerschmidt_Anglistik.pdf; cf. also: www.hammerschmidt-hummel.de/pdf_s/Thomas Merriam Review (Extract) on The True Face and Searching for Shakespeare.pdf. As to Hammerschmidt-Hummel’s latest findings, presented to the public at a press conference in the Cathedral Museum of Mainz, Germany, last year, see: Rossella Lorenzi‘s article on the website of DISCOVERY CHANNEL: news.discovery.com/history/art-history/two-new-portraits-of-shakespeare-found-140212.htm<br /><br />In addition, and to set the record straight, it has to be mentioned that Shakespeare’s original death mask is owned by the City of Darmstadt, Germany, and is on permanent loan in the State and University Library Darmstadt.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090287936167820877.post-24467678653486175722014-11-02T19:05:15.182-08:002014-11-02T19:05:15.182-08:00the chandos portrait was supposedly done during hi...the chandos portrait was supposedly done during his lifetime. but there's no way to be certain that it's really his likeness.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090287936167820877.post-73795912611478085322014-01-09T10:02:48.316-08:002014-01-09T10:02:48.316-08:00Really I though there was no surviving paintings o...Really I though there was no surviving paintings of him that were made in his lifetime. Only portraits after his death. It's got to be a fakeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com