Just some harmless Renaissance mocking... Did you find it shocking?

Lavinia Fontana (August 24, 1552 – August 11, 1614) was an Italian painter, with a long 40 year career, which was especially legendary for a women in the Renaissance era. This oil on canvas painting of hers, called "Portrait of a Noblewoman", was created in 1580 and is now featured in the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC. What I found interesting about this painting was the complexity, elaborate detail, and drama in her dress contrasted with her simple, boring expression. I found it quite amusing that this portrait was supposed to showcase the women's status, class, and power, yet she seemed lost and frankly quite bored and absent-minded in this painting. I decided to pursue this contrast even further and have a little fun with it. I explored the humour and irony in differentiating the person's dull and boring facial expression in the original photo to the strange, vibrant, funny, "out-there" facial expression of the photo-shopped version on the right. My purpose in doing this was to initiate the surprise factor amongst the people viewing this, as well as give them a little laugh. I shot my photo with a Canon Rebel T2i with an 18-55 mm lens, on a shutter speed of 1/60 of a second, and an aperture of f8. I used the various tools available on Adobe photoshop to crop in my photo to the original, and make it appear as real and authentic as possible.