In honour of Valentine’s Day,cast your adoring eyes over the sweetest representations of romance – and its unlit sides – on canvasLove is patient, love is kind: this is the visual embodiment of those great verses from Corinthians so often read at weddings. Rembrandt’s masterpiece is fond in its every brushstroke. About his young couple we know very little who they were, and whether she was a bride,whether they were actually Jewish – but this image goes beyond portraiture in any case. Their faces are radiant with adoration. Their gestures are exquisite: his hand gently placed on her breast, hers tenderly covering it. They are themselves on that day, and yet universal. The portray is a kind of secular altarpiece,an inspiration to patience, humility and love.
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Source: theguardian.com