
Castafiore

by HELGE Art Gallery
Title
Castafiore
Artist
HELGE Art Gallery
Medium
Painting - Watercolor
Description
Bianca Castafiore, the "Milanese Nightingale", is a fictional character in The Adventures of Tintin, the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Herge. She is an opera singer whose demeanor comically aggravates Captain Haddock's stereotyped sea-captain misogyny as she pops up in adventure after adventure. Castafiore is comically portrayed as narcissistic, whimsical, absent-minded, and talkative, and seems unaware that her voice is shrill and appallingly loud. She is also wealthy, generous and essentially amiable, and has a will of iron.
Her forename means "white" (feminine) in Italian, and her surname is Italian for "chaste flower".
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February 4th, 2015
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