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Accidental Renaissance

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AccidentalRenaissance is for photos that look like Renaissance paintings.

This means that they look like Renaissance art in their composition, their coloring, their saturation, the angle of the scene, the types of settings, etc.

πŸ‘‰ Must be a photo. Not a meme, drawing, art, ai-generated or ai-enhanced image, screenshot, low-effort post, meta posts, video, or anything else but a photo.

πŸ‘‰ Must be SFW. No gore, porn, extreme violence, blood, corpses, or similarly disturbing content. Absolutely no pornography, even if it's "tasteful".

πŸ‘‰ Comments must be civil. No slurs of any kind or using words to insult, demean, harass, or abuse other individuals or groups.

πŸ‘‰ The Renaissance part (not the photo itself) must be accidental to the photograph. In other words, no photos of Renaissance fairs, people dressed in medieval/Renaissance clothes, etc.

πŸ‘‰ NO influencer selfies, professional photoshoots with watermarks, any type of OnlyFans-like content. We are not the place to work your side-hustle.

πŸ“Έ If you know who the photographer is, give them credit in the comment section. This is the only type of self-promotion we allow.

πŸ‘©β€πŸ¦― Alt-Text for vision-impaired users in the post body or in the comments is highly encouraged. Just pretend you are describing a photo to someone on the phone.

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[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

dunno about renaissance; maybe accidental DalΓ­?

[–] nylo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

a fair critique!

i guess it's not a perfect fit but I thought of this comm when I saw it :)

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah, I'm not gatekeeping, just like to keep on top of historical periods. It's definitely accidentally artsy.

[–] deus@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh, this happened near me. Some strong winds a couple of days ago tipped it over. The greek temple-looking thing in the background belongs to a (in)famous chain store from Southern Brazil and most of their units have a statue just like this one on the parking lot. I assume they're there because its owner ("Havan's bald old man", as he's widely known) is very conservative and idolizes the US, which probably helps explain the tackiness in display here.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

strong winds

Sure it wasn't nasty socialist terrorists?

[–] FundMECFS@anarchist.nexus 4 points 1 week ago

nasty socialist terrorist wind

[–] l_isqof@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

it's nice that they even put the whitehouse supermarket behind it... everything is for sale in there.

[–] Ozymandias1688@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago