The first official portrait of B16 is underway. The British Artist, Michael Noakes has been commissioned for the task and the Holy Father has already sat. It is reported that Noakes saw the Pope as a slightly shy man and tried to portray that. According to the Times, the painter is quoted as saying "he also smiles a great deal, but it's an oil painting and is going to be around as part of the records for a long time. So I made him look cheerful, with a degree of gravitas and a bit of a twinkle." The finished product is expected to be presented to the Holy Father at the end of April.
The acompaning image here is, of course, Cardinal Basil Hume. It was executed buy the same artist and can be somthing along the lines of what we can expect.
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