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Yes I understand what you mean, but the picture is very large, and if you look carefully in the larger version, it does not touching the edge of the canvas. It is under probably like an inch. The arm is out. Maybe while cropping away the frame it might have took of just slightly a little more that
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It's one of those things that looks different in person: It's an absolutely massive painting, and the composition works in that context - He's coming out of the shadows, entering from outside the frame.
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How do we know that image is not clipped? The composition looks so unbalanced that I think it must be... I mean, what artist would paint a head touching the edge of the canvas? --
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necessary. But the picture is not crippled. I think illustrates a point, he is in the shadow. He is a mortal. She is a godess.
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Looks like it is cut off at the top - I don't think the artist would have framed it so tight. --
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Oh, hey, neat. I saw this at an Edinburgh exhibit earlier this month.
58: 57:– Anchises, the prince seduced by the goddess Venus, the father of 73:
A typical 19th-century English painting and an epic classical work
198:'Venus and Anchises', by Sir William Blake Richmond (1842 - 1921) 65:(In Greek mythology, Anchises is the lover of Aphrodite) 35:
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Knowledge:Featured picture candidates
Venus and Anchises

Aeneas
William Blake Richmond
William Blake Richmond
Anchises
Cultural depictions of lions
Knowledge:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings
William Blake Richmond
Hafspajen
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William Blake Richmond
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Janke
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09:41, 22 May 2014 (UTC)
'Venus and Anchises', by Sir William Blake Richmond (1842 - 1921)
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