Friday Portrait: Rudolph Valentino by James Bennett
March 6th, 2009
Today’s portrait is of Italian actor Rudolph Valentino, sex symbol of the silents. When Valentino died at the tender age of 31, female fans all over the world broke into hysterics, crying and swooning over the loss. But hey, so what. That kinda thing happens to illustrators all the time.

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