Genius revealed
Feb 21, 2021
2 minutes
by JENNY NICHOLLS
e looks at us from his portrait with bored, quizzical warmth, a handsome man in a giant periwig leaning on a velvet pillow. With his odd lack of intensity, big hair, lacy collar and pink wrist bows – chic in 1671 – wealthy 42-year-old Dutchman Christiaan Huygens looks like nothing much in the
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