WWPD? (What Would Panofsky Do?)

So sweet
Originally uploaded by swarthbore.

Dylan recently sent me this marvelous photo. There's something so disturbingly sweet about it...

I also find that it reminds me in a very strange way of Jan van Eyck's "Arnolfini Portrait."



I'm including a close-up to further illustrate this point.



In the course of googling said painting in order to shamelessly steal some photos of it from other websites, I came across this page. Believe it or not, someone ELSE out there also sees a similarity between Putin and the figures in this painting - but, see, they think that it's evidence that Putin is the Antichrist. Um, judge this one for yourselves, I suppose. Personally, I think that just having a uniquely Northern Renaissance looking face doesn't exactly make you, well, evil, but it's probably a decent start.