We were talking about the beauty apps Chinese women use to spruce their selfies up for social media. Here’s the old-fashioned kind.

Lavinia Fontana (detail). Regarded by some as first established woman artist, Lavinia was not only family bread-winner, but found time to give birth to 11 children. The subject, a virginal looking courtier, remains a mystery despite our attempts to crack the decorative symbolism. pic.twitter.com/qUz7jCpYYh

— Philip Mould (@philipmould) January 8, 2018

Art restorers meticulously cleaned all the centuries of gunk off this portrait.