ALL EYES ON YOU
At one point in time, eyes kept popping up in my timelines and I started to curate. Maybe because I inherited my great grandfathers big eyes, that it is something I notice? But when the Covid pandemic started changing the world, it felt wrong to post a blog with this subject. It made me feel uneasy, as if all these eyes resembled the many people who lost their lives to the virus. This blogpost became real life, and it wasn't positive. Nowadays it feels normal again and when I read more about the origin of eye miniatures, it lost it's strange feeling. So, after years, finally the post I wanted to make from the start. Eye miniatures are believed to have originated when the Prince of Wales (later George IV ) felt the need to send the widow Maria Fitzherbert a token of his love. This gesture and the romance that went with it was frowned upon by the court, so a miniaturist was employed to paint only the eye and thereby preserve anonymity and decorum. Reportedly...
