The end.
The beginning in the issues №№92-93
The Family life of Mariede’Medici
“The grass sure seems greener at the neighboring
city.” Thought Marie on her way to Lyon. “Well, I
mean to fix that green.”
In addition to the places Medici wished to see
and people to do, she spent a quarter of a century
dreaming about a crown, refusing any other offers of
hand, heart or any other body parts which didn’t have
anything to do with bearing a crown. It was important
for her to show her old dresses as new ones in a fresh
company of another country. To show her best side to
the French beau monde, although it’s hard to choose a
good side, when one seems better than the other. But
how can it be anything but? Can a spoiled princess
say, like normal people do:
“Yes, I have plenty of flaws, so forgive me, perfect
peo-ple”? Her self-opinion already set a place under
her heel for some pathetic monarch, who should’ve
been already despair-ing for her presence to be seen
at Lyon.
But Henry the 4th didn’t seem to be losing sleep in
his de-sire to see his perfect spouse, and didn’t prepare
a celebra-tion in Lyon to honor her glorious arrival.
More than that, the king went as far as to be a bit late
to their first encounter, just by mere three-four-fivesix…
days, showing by doing so that he didn’t even
think about rushing mindlessly towards her.
Theunique combination of something old,
something new and something with quite a bit of
gold in her shoe, represent-ed by the maturedaughter
of a billionaire, was somehow missingfrom being at
the top of his “to do” list. And the lack of hurry to
take her from the trip to the party had several serious
reasons.
First of all, the dowry of over half a millioncrowns
(the biggest in the history of France), minus the debt
to the house of the spouse, was already transferred
to the treasury. There-fore Henry-number-four had
his debt foregone, and was fore-ward about admitting
getting married for the money alone, because nothing
counts as much as a six-figure num-ber, beginning
with a six.
Second, he had to comfort his mistress, Henrietta,
after a miscarriage of the royal firstborn, a fact that
had her dreams of a throne thrown out the window,
and the string of fate wasn’t there to tie the ends
together. Last, but not the least, in order to make a
good impression, he had to bring down his men down
the mountains, which, much like in the case of Grand
Duke of York, looked down when they came down,
probably due to a three-months long war.
Marie was far from impressed by his presence with
a mere convoy of two thousands horsemen. The total
of Florentian escort amounted to seven thousand of
Italian free-loaders, which didn’t mind anything for
free, including the first favorite Concino Concini,
who loved when women conc… well, you know what,
with a name and surname of this sort.
Henry probably didn’t mind having something
similar, so after performing his last duty to the Medici,
the spousal one, decided to ignore similar calls in
the future. As for Marie, after she slept with a guy
on the first date, mostly because she didn’t even met
that bearded Navarre person before that day,finally
became a full-out queen.
But Rubens doesn’t go into all the details that
served as a prelude to the marriage, but instead he
depicts the evening rendezvous itself. The atypical
painting of the series-the roles of gods are given to
the newly-wed. Hymney pokes the bride with a torch,
as if saying “bow to your husband”. Hen-ry seems
to lack his usual smile while assessing the realistic
appearance of the wife, differing significantly from
the por-trait he’d recently seen. Judging by the looks,
which includ-ed a sober one, he needed something
strong to put the “wow” on this “how?”, but it’s yet to
be produced in this century. Under them, Lyon (city)
serves as a background for an old-fashioned twowheeled
chariot, drawn by a couple of Lions, which
carries Lyon (a woman) with the local coat-of-arms.
And under the evening six-pointed star, much like in
the rest of the narrative images of Rubens, you can see
the giyurs1… I mean Amours. It’s so sweet, that it can
give cavi-ties to any romantic, and serves toconceal
a quarrelsome, dissolute and un-pretty queen with a
lousy temper and unbe-coming habits.
Now that the oversweet path is set, on it comes to
light “The birth of the Dauphin in Fontainebleu”.
Usually, one can’t know what to expect from those
expecting women-a boy or a girl. But Henry scores
from the first shot and gets an heir, and such a
triumph has to be depicted. Thus, on this canvas, Her
Honor seems tired, but pleased, as she observes her
infant in the hands of Health, who proves that despite
allthe oddities, the clown prince is sane and sound.
The queen is yet to understand that the future of the
blossom of her bosom is just the beginning. Above
Искусствоведение
2016 год № 5 (94) С О В Р ЕМ Е Н НА Я ВСЕМИРНАЯ ЛИТЕРАТУРА
her leans Femida, since Claud Maugis insisted on
emphasizing the nickname Louis the Just. But the
goddess is depicted without her blindfold, which can
be read as a bias in her judgments. Below, some sort
of high breed hound stares up, standing for the polyamorous
monarch, who can’t control his amour and
who didn’t bother to tell between boys and girls.
But that’s the normal part, it keeps getting better
(and more interesting), to say somewhat ironically.
By the back-ground of red drapes (how can one
do without), stands the cruel Kibella, which seems
logical, considering the internal family issues between
the mother and the son. You can also see Glory here,
looking like the first favorite, which gave the king
children to try and beat the queen. Somewhere at the
distance you can see Lucifer on his carriage, saying:
to all my enemies and haters I send lots of love and
warmth-let the bastards burn. And Lucina on the left,
with five babies, symbolizing the other children of the
French matron from Italy, finishes off the main critics
of the project, since wheth-er all those younglings
came from Henry or not was quite unclear.
Off course, Maugis and Richelieu insisted that the
pic-tures must show a real story of Mariede’Medici,
but didn’t compromise the noble line. Therefore,
starting from this pic-ture, they vetoed all the
unwanted personas, such as the milk-sister depicted
on the “The Wedding by Proxy of Marie de’ Medici to
King Henry IV”, who is at fault of the corrup-tion and
decay of France, or her husband Concini (the picture
“The Disembarkation at Marseilles”, the queens
lover and a buffoon). Also, so help us God, to avoid
staining the memory of the late Henry IV. And that’s
why nobastards from any side are to be mentioned.
And off course, we’ll have to do without implication
of suspicious relations, such as Henrietta, who was
jealous of Marie, which had her hands on the kings’
treasures.
A commoner is lucky: if he mixes up his wife with
his lover, by bringing the first flowers and the second
–the paycheck, they’ll just be pleased. But for the
kind-hearted monarch with a spoiled spouse, this
triangle meant running between them, following the
sacred drinking rule: “Lover after dear-you’re in the
clear. Dear after lover-run for cov-er”. Also, Marie
had connections, which connected us to a possible
conflict (pardon the tautology). As for Henrietta, she
possessed a very sharp tongue, which could cause
some damage, as far as the French go, no matter how
it sounds –about a concubine.
1 – Giyur-conversion to Judaism, also symbolized by the six
pointed Star of David.
The beginning in the issues №№92-93
The Family life of Mariede’Medici
“The grass sure seems greener at the neighboring
city.” Thought Marie on her way to Lyon. “Well, I
mean to fix that green.”
In addition to the places Medici wished to see
and people to do, she spent a quarter of a century
dreaming about a crown, refusing any other offers of
hand, heart or any other body parts which didn’t have
anything to do with bearing a crown. It was important
for her to show her old dresses as new ones in a fresh
company of another country. To show her best side to
the French beau monde, although it’s hard to choose a
good side, when one seems better than the other. But
how can it be anything but? Can a spoiled princess
say, like normal people do:
“Yes, I have plenty of flaws, so forgive me, perfect
peo-ple”? Her self-opinion already set a place under
her heel for some pathetic monarch, who should’ve
been already despair-ing for her presence to be seen
at Lyon.
But Henry the 4th didn’t seem to be losing sleep in
his de-sire to see his perfect spouse, and didn’t prepare
a celebra-tion in Lyon to honor her glorious arrival.
More than that, the king went as far as to be a bit late
to their first encounter, just by mere three-four-fivesix…
days, showing by doing so that he didn’t even
think about rushing mindlessly towards her.
Theunique combination of something old,
something new and something with quite a bit of
gold in her shoe, represent-ed by the maturedaughter
of a billionaire, was somehow missingfrom being at
the top of his “to do” list. And the lack of hurry to
take her from the trip to the party had several serious
reasons.
First of all, the dowry of over half a millioncrowns
(the biggest in the history of France), minus the debt
to the house of the spouse, was already transferred
to the treasury. There-fore Henry-number-four had
his debt foregone, and was fore-ward about admitting
getting married for the money alone, because nothing
counts as much as a six-figure num-ber, beginning
with a six.
Second, he had to comfort his mistress, Henrietta,
after a miscarriage of the royal firstborn, a fact that
had her dreams of a throne thrown out the window,
and the string of fate wasn’t there to tie the ends
together. Last, but not the least, in order to make a
good impression, he had to bring down his men down
the mountains, which, much like in the case of Grand
Duke of York, looked down when they came down,
probably due to a three-months long war.
Marie was far from impressed by his presence with
a mere convoy of two thousands horsemen. The total
of Florentian escort amounted to seven thousand of
Italian free-loaders, which didn’t mind anything for
free, including the first favorite Concino Concini,
who loved when women conc… well, you know what,
with a name and surname of this sort.
Henry probably didn’t mind having something
similar, so after performing his last duty to the Medici,
the spousal one, decided to ignore similar calls in
the future. As for Marie, after she slept with a guy
on the first date, mostly because she didn’t even met
that bearded Navarre person before that day,finally
became a full-out queen.
But Rubens doesn’t go into all the details that
served as a prelude to the marriage, but instead he
depicts the evening rendezvous itself. The atypical
painting of the series-the roles of gods are given to
the newly-wed. Hymney pokes the bride with a torch,
as if saying “bow to your husband”. Hen-ry seems
to lack his usual smile while assessing the realistic
appearance of the wife, differing significantly from
the por-trait he’d recently seen. Judging by the looks,
which includ-ed a sober one, he needed something
strong to put the “wow” on this “how?”, but it’s yet to
be produced in this century. Under them, Lyon (city)
serves as a background for an old-fashioned twowheeled
chariot, drawn by a couple of Lions, which
carries Lyon (a woman) with the local coat-of-arms.
And under the evening six-pointed star, much like in
the rest of the narrative images of Rubens, you can see
the giyurs1… I mean Amours. It’s so sweet, that it can
give cavi-ties to any romantic, and serves toconceal
a quarrelsome, dissolute and un-pretty queen with a
lousy temper and unbe-coming habits.
Now that the oversweet path is set, on it comes to
light “The birth of the Dauphin in Fontainebleu”.
Usually, one can’t know what to expect from those
expecting women-a boy or a girl. But Henry scores
from the first shot and gets an heir, and such a
triumph has to be depicted. Thus, on this canvas, Her
Honor seems tired, but pleased, as she observes her
infant in the hands of Health, who proves that despite
allthe oddities, the clown prince is sane and sound.
The queen is yet to understand that the future of the
blossom of her bosom is just the beginning. Above
Искусствоведение
2016 год № 5 (94) С О В Р ЕМ Е Н НА Я ВСЕМИРНАЯ ЛИТЕРАТУРА
her leans Femida, since Claud Maugis insisted on
emphasizing the nickname Louis the Just. But the
goddess is depicted without her blindfold, which can
be read as a bias in her judgments. Below, some sort
of high breed hound stares up, standing for the polyamorous
monarch, who can’t control his amour and
who didn’t bother to tell between boys and girls.
But that’s the normal part, it keeps getting better
(and more interesting), to say somewhat ironically.
By the back-ground of red drapes (how can one
do without), stands the cruel Kibella, which seems
logical, considering the internal family issues between
the mother and the son. You can also see Glory here,
looking like the first favorite, which gave the king
children to try and beat the queen. Somewhere at the
distance you can see Lucifer on his carriage, saying:
to all my enemies and haters I send lots of love and
warmth-let the bastards burn. And Lucina on the left,
with five babies, symbolizing the other children of the
French matron from Italy, finishes off the main critics
of the project, since wheth-er all those younglings
came from Henry or not was quite unclear.
Off course, Maugis and Richelieu insisted that the
pic-tures must show a real story of Mariede’Medici,
but didn’t compromise the noble line. Therefore,
starting from this pic-ture, they vetoed all the
unwanted personas, such as the milk-sister depicted
on the “The Wedding by Proxy of Marie de’ Medici to
King Henry IV”, who is at fault of the corrup-tion and
decay of France, or her husband Concini (the picture
“The Disembarkation at Marseilles”, the queens
lover and a buffoon). Also, so help us God, to avoid
staining the memory of the late Henry IV. And that’s
why nobastards from any side are to be mentioned.
And off course, we’ll have to do without implication
of suspicious relations, such as Henrietta, who was
jealous of Marie, which had her hands on the kings’
treasures.
A commoner is lucky: if he mixes up his wife with
his lover, by bringing the first flowers and the second
–the paycheck, they’ll just be pleased. But for the
kind-hearted monarch with a spoiled spouse, this
triangle meant running between them, following the
sacred drinking rule: “Lover after dear-you’re in the
clear. Dear after lover-run for cov-er”. Also, Marie
had connections, which connected us to a possible
conflict (pardon the tautology). As for Henrietta, she
possessed a very sharp tongue, which could cause
some damage, as far as the French go, no matter how
it sounds –about a concubine.
1 – Giyur-conversion to Judaism, also symbolized by the six
pointed Star of David.