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Title: Lira--2004
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 18 X 24 Inches
Status: Family Collection

Notes:Very Tuscan...
The inspiration was a very old Italian 500 Lire banknote (Banca D'Italia) from the 1940's, with a portrait of this mystery woman whom no one I talked to seemed to know who it is...My guess is Boudicea(sp?)....anyway it's very Italian feeling, and in tribute to the old Itailain money, from which it was loosely based, I titled it Lira which I suppose sounds like it could be a woman's name.

If anyone is all that interested, I'm posting a snap of the bill in my scraps.
If you can identify who she really is or have a guess, I'd be interested.
P.S. I didn't try to make it look exactly like the banknote, just sort of based on it.


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Flareia's avatar
Wow, this looks wonderful. The colors go nicely.