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Sic Transit Gloria ... and Mary and Alice and ...

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This is not a new video, but it resurfaced recently. Its creator, Philip Scott Johnson, chose 90 portraits of women from 500 years of Western art, morphed them one into the other in chronological order, and set it all to music. The result is an interesting overview of the changing concept of female beauty and of the evolution of portraiture (story, video): http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20141017-changing-face-500-years-of-women
   And here, for those who, like me, immediately wanted to identify each artwork and its painter, is a list by someone who did it for us: http://www.maysstuff.com/womenidorg.htm

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