Around a certain time, all women are painted with pregnant looking stomachs. I saw one painting that was newly weds, so she couldn't have been pregnant, they were rich, and a rich man wouldn't marry a pregnant women.
Something's weird about that pregnancy look thing.
2006-09-08 16:29:02 · 11 answers · asked by Clandestine 1 in Beauty & Style ➔ Fashion & Accessories
I think that was considered good looking/sexy at the time. so naturally artists paint the "perfect" body just as they do today.
2006-09-08 16:32:03 · answer #1 · answered by setter505 5 · 6⤊ 0⤋
The women are probably Rubenesque. Rubens (1577-1640) was a famous painter who always painted his women robust becuase this was a sign of fertility and wealth.
2006-09-08 16:35:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Only the wealthy could afford to eat a lot of food that's why it was the way it was, that's why back then, being fat was considered a sign of affluence and beauty.
Also, only the wealthy could afford to have portraits painted of themselves, that's why you see a lot of rounder, fuller women in paintings.
2006-09-09 08:41:52 · answer #3 · answered by ilovesecondhandsmoke 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
what was considered attractive back in the day was fatter looking women than today. being fat for a woman was considered a sign of wealth and highly saught after.
2006-09-08 16:38:23 · answer #4 · answered by Mina//♥ 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure if anyone could ever know the answer to that. When a painting is done it is created by the artist and what they see. Although they didn't have birth control back then and there prob were alot of pregnancies.
2006-09-08 16:33:16 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
It's not weird, it was the "look" because they were celebrating the woman and her natural childbearing state. She wasn't supposed to look pregnant, just healthy...ready to get pregnant.
2006-09-08 16:32:32 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Becasue that was a sign of fertility and beauty in those days.
2006-09-08 16:34:58 · answer #7 · answered by Michael S 4 · 5⤊ 0⤋
They did it to promote fertilliy in the "new wife"
looks now,
IS later
2006-09-08 16:36:04 · answer #8 · answered by Bad kitty 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
lol..I think it was the clothes..but I'm laughing at POO's answer...lmbooooo
2006-09-08 16:32:20 · answer #9 · answered by lil bit 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From what I've been taught, fat was in fashion back then...
2006-09-08 16:37:27 · answer #10 · answered by KnowhereMan 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋