Yeah that’s why they all died at 30 because they were so unhealthy but cool
Pretty sure it was the plague not heart disease.
Pretty sure it was the Plague, childbirth, food spoiling, maltreated infections, smallpox, pneumonia, and/or generally unsanitary living conditions (such as dumping sewage and waste in the streets) and not health conditions caused by excess body fat.
Not to mention that the Renaissance standard of female beauty being plumpness and full-figured forms came from the fact that it was a status symbol. Plump, pale, full-figured women were wealthy women who didn’t have to spend their days in hard labor or raising children (or both) and stood a better chance of bearing healthy babies than commoner women did.
Also let’s actually take a look at what they looked like… and realise that they’re not even ‘fat’ for the most part, just REALISTIC. Rolls, boobs, muscles and cellulite – which are all normal and natural no matter your weight.
(Rubens, Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus, c. 1616-17. Technically closer to Baroque style but you get my point.)
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