The Art Of Celebrity: Stars in Renaissance paintings
Michael Jackson and Prince Charles among the stars reimagined by Worth1000.com's geeky geniuses. Jennifer Aniston With A Pearl Earring, anyone?
4 July 2009
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All these long-lens photos of actresses in bikinis on private beaches, or sordid shots of drunken starlets showing their knickers as they try to get out of a limo while wearing a miniskirt. It’s not exactly David Bailey, is it?
If you have, then a gaggle of Photoshop wizards on the website worth1000.com would agree with you. They've taken the modern love affair with celebrity and combined it with Renaissance art to create these amazing and hilarious images.
So if you’ve ever wondered what John Goodman would look like if he had been painted by Holbein as Henry VIII – and let’s face it, who hasn’t at some point? – or whether Jennifer Aniston would make a good Girl With A Pearl Earring in the Vermeer classic, wonder no longer. We have the answers right here.
Kate Winslet is reimagined as a generously cleavaged Rubens beauty, while Prince Charles plays his ill-fated predecessor and namesake King Charles I. Amy Winehouse looks remarkably serene and beautiful as a Regency noblewoman.
And special mention must go to the splendid Emperor Snoopoleon Bonaparte, who surely asks: "Ce qui est mon muthaf***in' nom?"
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