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finalfantasythings:

WHO WORE IT BETTER?

On tonight’s exclusive edition of WHO WORE IT BETTER?, we compare two different equestrian portraits from two different time periods done in two different art mediums! To the left is the oil on canvas Malmaison version of Napoleon Crossing the Alps by French artist Jacques-Louis David (1800), and to our right is the CGI portrait of Claire Farron (codename “Lightning”) from Square Enix’s Playstation 3 title, Final Fantasy XIII (2009)!

We first take a look at David’s portrait of France’s first emperor, Napoleon Bonaparte! Won’t you just look at the detail on his orange cloak fit only for a self-proclaimed consul! The painting, which is an idealized render of Napoleon’s campaign through the Great St. Bernard Pass in the Swiss Alps, renders Napoleon as focal point and as a means to symbolically boost his image, is depicted disproportionately large to his steed! But check out his famous, bare handed gesture, as if to say, “I, Napoleon, wish not for bloodshed, but for peace throughout all Western Europe!” Such propaganda was prevalent in royal portraiture to boost popularity with the public, and David executes the motif with such chic!

But Lightning is in a class all her own! Unlike Napoleon, the CGI team at Square Enix’s 1st Production Department shows her realistically proportioned to her Eidolon Odin, who in true Norse-based mythology style, is in the form of his horse Sleipnir (while Sleipnir in Norse mythology is actually six-legged, Odin in Final Fantasy XIII has the realistic four). But who needs propagandized body proportions when you have as much control over a wild steed as much as this former Guardian Corps soldier turned fugitive Pulse l’Cie! She remains steady on Odin’s reared back without even so much as a set of reigns, wielding his dual blades with ease and charging into battle with such confidence as if to cry out, “I’m no fal’Cie slave!” Lightning definitely strikes hard in this one! As she would have it, there are some things in life you just do!

Two famous takes on the ever so popular equestrian portrait, but we beg the question: WHO WORE IT BETTER?

mygzyap:

Especially LOL’d at last one XD

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hibiscusred:

LAB ADVENTURES

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