The photographer Sacha Goldberger wondered what comic super heroes and villains would look like if they were portraited as characters of the classical Flemish painting and Elizabeth Era and we think she achieved it.
"What if Superman was born in the sixteenth century?" she asks in her website. "And what if the Hulk was a Duke? How might Van Eyck have portrayed Snow White?"
According to Sacha, she wanted to go back to childhood charactes from the comics and movies "gave birth to a desire" and "to re-appropriate them, to take them back to a time forming the cornerstone of modern western art."
"The superheroes often live their lives cloaked in anonymity. These portraits give them a chance to « fix » their narcissism denied. By the temporal disturbance they produce, these images allow us to discover, under the patina of time, an unexpected melancholy of those who are to be invincible," she adds. "As science fiction meets history of art, time meets an inexhaustible desire for mythology which is within each of us."
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