The Van Dyke beard is named after Anthony van Dyck. A Van Dyke (sometimes spelled Vandyke, [1] or Van Dyck [2]) is a style of facial hair named after the 17th-century Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck (1599–1641).

Dec 1, 2019 · Not all communist leaders sport the impressive beards of 1917 bad boys Trotsky and Stalin. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin misses the mark. Despite a similar goatee-mustache combo a la Trotsky, it just doesn't work here. Maybe it's the lack of glasses, the facial shape, or the necktie. For whatever reason, Lenin's beard just doesn't stack up.

Dec 20, 2015 · Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin possessed two of history’s most famous mustaches, and both were conceived with purpose. Stalin’s mustache was, in many ways, a reaction to the beards of leftist...

Mar 28, 2019 · In the late 18th early 19th c, it was out. As the 19th progressed, facial hair became fashionable. Look at recent history. Over the last decade, beards have become all the rage. In a few years, they'll fall out of favor again. Do you think it also might have to do with the ideal of facial hair as traditionally masculine ?

Aug 31, 2013 · His mouth, in repose, might be described as cherubic. He could be sardonic; he could cause an oratorical opponent to shrivel in the air with a single shaft of sarcastic logic. This seemed a black art, and its Mephistophelian character was emphasized by that wavy black hair and a short, pointed beard.

May 19, 2013 · The Roman tradition of clean-shaven and short-haired, the antithesis of the hairy barbarian, was changed dramatically by the adoption of the Greek-style beard by the emperor Hadrian, a noted Hellenophile.

Dec 30, 2007 · “He had a pretty full white beard, and no one recognized him for the longest time.” “I don’t want to overanalyze my own beard, but, I mean, Trotsky had a beard,” Rob Dubbin, a writer for “The...

May 21, 2024 · ON the face of it, it would not seem to matter much whether M. Trotsky continued to wear his beard and moustache or whether he "shaved ...

Jan 21, 2024 · The beard as a revolutionary tactic. It is the 101st anniversary of the death of Lenin. He was one of the founding influences of the Beard Liberation Front, the politics perhaps, but the beard definitely. Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky had beards while Stalin could only manage a moustache.

Although Leon Trotsky may have been a Marxist and the founder of the Red Army, he was still an avid angler with a knack for growing impressive facial hair. He is pictured above deep sea fishing in the Gulf of Mexico.