Post by Leanne on Feb 15, 2009 13:28:43 GMT -5
Who Said Kevin's No Oil Painting?
Feb 15 2009
Old Masters' Lookalikes
PAINTINGS by the Old Masters are centuries old...but some of the faces look amazingly familiar.
With his red hair and beard, Scots actor Kevin McKidd is a dead ringer for Vincent Van Gogh, who sliced off an ear during a bout of depression. McKidd can play a tortured genius as well - in his role as Dr Owen Hunt in TV hospital drama Grey's Anatomy.
Check out these actors, TV stars and comics who can boast their doppelgangers are works of art Rumpole of the Bailey actor Leo McKern's grumpy face could have been plucked from Dutch artist Rembrandt's 1660 self portrait.
One is a vision of beauty...the other is The Birth of Venus by Botticelli. Aussie actress Nicole Kidman's auburn locks and clear skin are an artist's dream.
Alex Salmond looks just like the tavern owner in 1630 masterpiece Club king Peter Stringfellow and English artist Joseph Wright's 1768 oil painting.
They share the bulbous eyes, swept-back hair and pointed nose - actor Charles Dance and Batoni's Scotsman, the Hon. William Gordon, painted in 1765.
They Think It's All Over star Rory McGrath and Johann the Steadfast by Cranach.
Beuckelger's 1569 portrait could have been modelled on Queen Vic regular Pat Evans They've both been through the wars...shamed television presenter John Leslie is a dead ringer for Jean Horace's 1815 portrait of Napoleon.
The short, curly hair, the eyes... Branzino's Portrait of a Young Man looks so familar. Yes, it's pop hunk Justin Timberlake, aka T rousersnake.
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