The bones of Richard III have been found, and apparently he didn’t
need a horse so much as a parking space.
Some articles have mentioned that his face was reconstructed
from the skull to show the real Richard, since some historians seem to think
that historic portraits deliberately made him look more sinister. Assuming the reports are true, historians
need to learn more about disability.
I think the reconstruction makes him look too serene and I don’t
think it’s accurate. Take a look at the
pictures of that skeleton that have been all over the Internet lately. Maybe the artists who painted those portraits
weren’t trying to make Richard III look more sinister than he actually was.
Maybe they were just accurately portraying the face of a man
suffering from severe chronic pain.
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