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The point is, the simplicity of her features is precisely why she is so lovely. I'm not surprised you can't see that, because you very obviously possess a "modern" sense of attractiveness -- that is to say, a thoroughly degenerate and haywire understanding of beauty that is filtered first through your libido, and never reaches your soul.
When i look at her, i don't see an individual; i see a physical representation of the clean, righteous, uncomplicated morality of her ancestors. If her features were sharper, more in tune with today's eye, then she would no longer represent the fairness, the piety, and dignified plainness of once-great protestant northern europe, but the repulsive garishness of her distant ancestors: the barbarous, hedonistic pillagers who, just like us, believed that a coating of gold or silver was enough to make a thing beautiful.
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