But even then, Hadlow suggests, portraits hinted at a more sombre side, a wary, self-contained air and steely determination.
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Collectively, they suggest a portrait of the artist's busy mind.
The true artist, suggests this portrait of one of the truest, is a perfect ironic observer of the human scene.
The tangled imagery of "Ridens," one of the best transparencies here, may be suavely random, but it also suggests a portrait of Eve: the overlapping outlines of two Botticelli faces are combined with suggestions of a garden, a serpent, a ram's head, an animalistic face and, at the canvas's left edge, a long double helix that suggests a DNA strand.
Fig. 4 Filtered IRR images of the entire hidden composition at a 1500 1650 nm and detail at b 2100 2400 nm, with visible brushstroke textures, suggesting the portrait was fully executed before being painted over.
Raúl Colón's artwork is dreamily atmospheric, full of wide-open spaces that evoke the vastness of the universe and intimate portraits that suggest the inner workings of the scientific mind.
Catherine MacLeod, a curator at the gallery, said the flat lace collar in the portrait was an early-17th-century fashion, which suggested that the portrait was painted no earlier than 1600.
Some serious researchers have suggested that the portrait may actually be the artist's portrait of himself, transposed as a female.
In pre-publication interviews, Ms Lahouri suggested that her portrait might shock many French people.
