Apparently the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s Shaksper’s birth is going to be serving up one “breakthrough” after another all year long on all things related to, “we know Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare, so there.” This latest announcement about two more portraits “recently discovered” is remarkable, and folks will just have to head on over to the story on the “Discovery News” website to take in the full effect.
Side-by-side, here they are, two new Shakespeares … maybe. (Image courtesy of Discovery News)
From the article:
In the last years of his life, William Shakespeare was an elegant gentleman who spent time at his Stratford residence, sitting on an elaborately carved chair in the company of a book and an adoring dog.
About two decades earlier, he was a relatively young man exuding self-confidence and proud smiles.
These powerful images emerge from two previously unknown portraits of Shakespeare, according to Hildegard Hammerschmidt-Hummel, a professor of English at Mainz University, Germany.
“I subjected the images to fundamental tests of identity and authenticity, and these revealed that we are dealing with true-to-life portraits of Shakespeare, one from his youth, the second from his old age,” Hammerschmidt-Hummel told Discovery News.
