quick, put a napkin on your head so his painting looks stupid
this post was submitted on 17 Oct 2025
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She may be eating an ortolan, that's why she covers her head:
The traditional way French gourmands eat ortolans is to cover their heads and face with a large napkin or towel while consuming the bird. The purpose of the towel is debated. Some claim it is to retain the maximum aroma with the flavour as they consume the entire bird at once, while according to The Daily Telegraph, "Tradition dictates that [the towel] is to shield – from God's eyes – the shame of such a decadent and disgraceful act", and others have suggested the towel simply hides the consumers spitting out bones. This use of the towel was begun by a priest, a friend of Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ortolan_bunting#Culinary_use
But wiki of the painting says:
The one on the left of the man wears a headscarf in the typical garb of married Roman women at the time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_a_Roman_Osteria
I think it doesn't look like that, it seems like it's just placed there, without any fixture.
If I zoom in on the painting, it looks like she is eating a salad, as are her tablemates.
I think it’s kind of a reach to go all the way to “eating ortolan in Rome” based on the head scarf, regardless of how it’s placed.
We could just as safely assume she is doing what this thread says, putting it on her head to “cover herself from the observer” because she’s eating a salad.
o0o0 did you know the disgust on their faces isnt from being painted randomly by a guy in a restaurant‽
Can god make a towel so strong that even he cannot see through it or know what happens under it?
She's so crazy! Love her!
Given the bedroom eyes of the two ladies and the aggravation of the gentleman, the painter must have been quite the charmer too.
Carl Bloch, international ladies man.
also that cat
I demand the meaning of the very intentionaly present symbolic cat figure!
The service cat's job is to support the owner. Here it supports with some angry staring.
Their expressions look so realistic. Fantastic piece of artwork
Love the smoldering “whatcha doin later?” from that legend in the middle
Tom Holland was not amused to find paparazzi waiting during his ren fair holiday.
First: cat glare.
Second: there is a hat inexplicably on the wall but the gentleman in the image still wears his hat. Hats are optional, I guess?
The hat on the wall is hanging from a hook which was placed there specifically for hanging hats on the wall.
So, homeboy is just flagrantly breaking the rules to try and impress napkin-on-head-lady? What a madlad.
Maybe that's why the artist felt the need to take a photo, as proof of this man's audacity so his friends will believe the story.
His almost looks like a yarmulke, maybe it is one. Or something similarly religious
Diego Luna is like, “Shit, they caught me time traveling.”
I have been this person XD. the trick is appearing as if you are drawing something past them or arround them. You musn't stare, catch a few glimpses here and there and let your brain fill in the rest.
I'm this era you get used to smelling poo, especially during the sex.