This Painting Made Everyone Cringe. Here’s Why.

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This piece is called Pope Makes Love To Lady Mary Wortley Montagu by William Frith. It’s a painting of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the famous English poet Alexander Pope. Mary was an amazing poet in her own right, but she is perhaps best known as the person that brought smallpox inoculation/variolation to England.
This painting captures the exact moment the two friends became bitter enemies. Imagine a rejection so bad, it was still relevant a century after the events allegedly took place. When Frith presented this piece at the Royal Academy, people hated it. Alexander Pope was already seen as one of the greatest English poets and everyone thought this painting was a slap in the face to his legacy.
#classicart #art #arthistory #fineart
Credits:
Mary’s commode quote taken from Evidence in literary scholarship : essays in memory of James Marshall Osborn
Fire and lightning effect from vecteezy

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@PraiseTheFSMonster Год назад

Here's a woman that saved countless lives by teaching doctors about inoculations and the main thing that she's remembered for is hurting the feelings of a misogynistic man child who felt he was entitled to her love and ruined her life when she didn't reciprocate it!

@pebrablue Год назад

“Men are afraid women will laugh at them. Women are afraid men will kill them.” --- Margaret Atwood

@midnight_rose2337 Год назад

Okay... but she was married. How did he expect her to respond? She also made it very clear she only saw him as a friend.

@snaggybeans Год назад

Another awesome video. A woman remembered for "friendzoning" a guy she told time and again that she wasn't interested, instead of being remembered for advocating for public health.

@steven_gd Год назад

Oh the drama, the betrayal, the unrequited love! If only art history class was this engaging.

@astrinymris9953 Год назад

I read that Lady Mary thought Pope was joking because she considered his dramatic declaration too completely over the top to be sincere, and that was why she burst into laughter. She had never intended to hurt his feelings, or mock him.

@George_M_ Год назад

As a guy who's been the platonic friend with a crush... Just don't do it man, value your connection. And if you go for it anyway, be as understanding as possible of any reaction they may have. Don't be Pope -_-

@yoyoyosquiji8716 Год назад

I think a part of the painting that really gets me that I didn’t know before this was that Mary was married when Pope confessed to her. She had children and it seems she loved them enough to protect them from disease. I think it makes her laughing at his confession all the more reasonable even if later in life she had lovers. Pope is the incel king over here since he raked her reputation through the mud.

@rachaelappold3287 Год назад

I do not feel bad for Pope. He knew that Mary had a husband and chose to confess his love for her anyway? Then got angry that she didn't reciprocate his feelings and slandered her for it? It's giving "entitled whiny incel" who thinks women owe him for being "nice".

@sianmilne4879 Год назад

Kay but DO we feel bad for Pope? I mean, she made it pretty clear. Sounds like the eternal "man who can't take no for an answer" to me haha

@tilmook Год назад

I understand that Pope always felt like an outsider, and found solace in Mary because she herself was an outsider. But why couldn’t she be her own person? A beautiful woman, even after smallpox, educated and witty STILL chose to be his confidant despite his constant nagging. This story makes me realize that this might be a tale as old as time, but it’s still an issue girls deal with. Pope is a ridiculous manchild.

@nitewarden Год назад

Lol, I saw this painting at the Auckland Art Gallery a couple months ago. I thought it was hilarious. Like rejection is always difficult but there's still something refreshing about a woman being depicted with such an air of confidence to laugh off a confession. Historical paintings always show the women being coy or timid about men pursuing them and it being framed as romantic when hey, maybe she's just not that into you, man.

@hgjh9765 Год назад

I don't care what people say

@kittymervine6115 Год назад

She saved many lives by her introduction of a form of vaccination and is even mentioned in many medical books for her great work. Pope wrote some poems and stuff. Nothing wrong with that, but her work saving lives despite ridicule for inoculation (things never change), helped lead to more acceptance of Jenner (who also suffered from ridicule). She was so much more than just the woman that turned down Pope and he had to get back at her.

@randl7423 Год назад

Lady Mary Wortley Montague was such an interesting character. I studied her writings from her travels in the Middle East in uni. Love that she a) refused to marry a guy called Clotworthy Skeffington & instead ran off to have an interesting life in the city, and b) didn't care she gave the anti-vaxxers of her day the ick, and protected her kid from smallpox. 👏👏👏 We love to see it. (Also, Alexander Pope was an incel before it was "cool", eff that guy)

@BornRemaining Год назад

The Nice Guy(TM) archetype is timeless. Sexpests can harass (even married) disinterested women and still somehow be seen as victims and the women as antagonists. This concept will probably never go away. This guy wasn't forever single because of his stature, it was be cause of his personality. He sounds like he was a previous incarnation of Russel Greer!

@JJoy-bk8yr Год назад

Laughter is weird sometimes. I have suddenly started laughing uncontrollably when frightened or concerned - I know that I looked highly amused though that was not the case. This has happened twice when someone suddenly kissed me without warning or consent. Once was with a friend and we continued to be friends and never spoke of it, thank God. The artist called Lady Mary "cruel" but she said she could not control her response. I don't think she intended to hurt Pope - it was some type of reflex.

@womanonabicycle Год назад

Not only was she married....she married for love.

@AmaraJordanMusic Год назад

My dad’s best man was friends with my mom as well. They were on the same frequency, able to comprehend each other’s trains of thoughts quickly and well matched mentally. When he was having trouble financially, he even lived with them for a while until he was on his feet. Then they sort of drifted apart.

@dogacanizmirden7786 Год назад

They usually teach about history of vaccination in anatolia and Mary's approach on small pox, in med and vet faculties, in Turkey. I think it is fascinating that a young woman from England tried to educate her people about medicine in that dark times of history.