Tuesday, August 25, 2009

La monstrua desnuda (1680), de Juan Carreño de Miranda


Elaine: "This sullen little fatty sends his regards (oh, the tiny claw-like hands!) - the high lord of Gruck, this obese monstrua. I can quite see him capering awkwardly around, being plied with wine and shouting 17th C. Spanish obscenities."