Vignette with a Two-Headed Eagle 1715

Editor: So this is Bernard Picart's "Vignette with a Two-Headed Eagle," a striking little print. It feels very classical, but also a bit… ominous. What do you make of it? Curator: Ominous is interesting. I see it as a kind of symbolic puzzle, a game Picart is playing with us. The eagle, the arms… perhaps a wry commentary on power, or the burdens of leadership? What do *you* think? Editor: I hadn’t considered it as a puzzle, more of a straightforward emblem. I guess the two heads suggest internal conflict, or maybe seeing both sides? Curator: Exactly! It’s wonderfully layered. Maybe it’s both a critique *and* a celebration, or neither! What a thought! Editor: I love that, seeing something so certain and realizing it’s completely ambiguous.