stackyFACTSArt historians love to obsess over the stunning luminosity of the jewelry in that massively iconic portrait, completely ignoring the fact that it is mathematically too large to be real. The artist was almost certainly painting a highly polished piece of cheap tin, successfully tricking generations into admiring completely fake luxury.
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