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Today, we are going to look at a painting called A Young Lady with a Parrot by female Venetian Rococo painter, Rosalba Carriera.
Here we see a young lady posing seductively while carrying a cute parrot on her hand. This portrait is elegant but it is also reminiscent of your usual modern-day Instagram selfie. You can’t go wrong with posing with animals. With that bird, who knows how many likes she’ll get if social media existed in the 1600s.
She is engulfed by pearls and flowers. The blues of her dress matches the blues of the parrot. Speaking of the parrot, that bird seems to not want to look at the camera but instead would rather look at something else…
There is even a flower that is directly over her right breast with pearls running from them. Yes, it is seductive but maybe the nipple flower pearls are the reason why the bird can’t…
