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King James's lover looked remarkably like what other well known image?

Posted - April 22, 2018

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  • 22853

    He looks sort of like actor Christian Bale to me.
    :)

    Image result for christian bale
    This post was edited by WelbyQuentin at April 23, 2018 7:40 AM MDT
      April 22, 2018 11:29 AM MDT
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  • 13251
    King JAMES' lover 
      April 22, 2018 12:05 PM MDT
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  • 52903

    ¡Bravissimo!
    ~
      April 22, 2018 3:55 PM MDT
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  • 5835
    What is correct James or James's?
    James's hat (James' hat is also acceptable. For plural, proper nouns that are possessive, use an apostrophe after the 's': "The Eggleses' presentation was good." The Eggleses are a husband and wife consultant team.)Feb 22, 2013

    Purdue OWL: Apostrophe

    https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/621/01/
      April 22, 2018 5:21 PM MDT
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  • 5835





    A search for "King James's Book" also turns up these:



      April 22, 2018 5:43 PM MDT
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  • 13251
    It's actually a style issue with no hard and fast rule. According to the Associated Press (AP) Manual of Style, which I'm used to as a former newspaper writer and editor, James' is correct, but other sources such as Fowler's hold that James's is acceptable.
      April 22, 2018 10:36 PM MDT
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  • 9777
    Johnny Depp

      April 22, 2018 3:56 PM MDT
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  • 22853
    I chose Christian Bale but he looks like Johnny, too!
    :)
      April 22, 2018 4:50 PM MDT
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  • 5835
    This is a mildly interesting subject, but I never found anything about a lover. What are you talking about?
      April 22, 2018 5:44 PM MDT
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  • 44175
    I'm not sure who else she looks like.
      April 23, 2018 7:43 AM MDT
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  • 5455
    Which King James?  There are only two that could have been his lover and if it was James III of Scotland it would have been a little pervy.

    Cesare Borgia: 13 September 1475 - 12 March 1507

    King James III of Scotland: 10 July 1451 - 11 June 1488

    King James IV of Scotland: 17 March 1473 - 9 September 1513 This post was edited by Livvie at April 23, 2018 8:24 AM MDT
      April 23, 2018 8:19 AM MDT
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  • 32527

    The painting style reminded me of the Mona Lisa---not the subject of the painting of course.



    I think you are talking about the myth that Jesus' physical characteristics come from Cesare Borgia (illegitimate son of Pope Alexander VI) but I can find nothing saying he was the lover of King James.

    But the modern renderings of Jesus cannot be attributed to Cesare Borgia because the year this was painted (1490) is not far enough back into history.  There are many paintings centuries before this one that have a white man with brown beard, long wavy hair.


    Giotto di Bondone’s well-known 1305 mural The Lamentation of Christ features a white man with long brown hair, and Sandro Botticelli’s 1487 Madonna of the Pomegranate depicts a similarly featured infant Christ. Hieronymus Bosch’s Ecce Homo also antedates 1490 but demonstrates a recognizably familiar Jesus, as does Duccio di Buoninsegna’s early 1300’s Christ’s Farewell to his Apostles (and other works) and Bondone’s contemporaneous Last Supper (a very commonly depicted scene across time).

    The similarities in Jesus’ image extend to other regions and movements, with Flemish Renaissance depictions antedating 1490 but still fitting the common pattern. A long haired, pale-skinned Jesus was observed in artworks from 1250 and centuries prior. Clearly, 1490 was in no way the year, or even the millennium, in which the most common characteristics of Jesus’ depiction in art were solidified. Moreover, limitations in the transmission of ideas and trends in that era was such that;the establishment of a “new Jesus” would have taken years to propagate across countries and cultures in Europe.

      April 26, 2018 1:10 PM MDT
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