zooming in on some of the details is a treat
this post was submitted on 17 Dec 2024
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Nah man, creepy
Agreed.
you can view it in even more detail here : https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a9/Jean-L%C3%A9on_G%C3%A9r%C3%B4me_-_Le_charmeur_de_serpents.jpg
I had to size it down for this post so it wouldn't break lemmy
Get a load of her snake, lads!
- It's a "he"
- He's a child
This is also the art used for the cover for Edward Said's book Orientalism. A good read, even if newer postcolonial scholars have improved on his ideas since then.