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.

👉 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.

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

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

👉 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.

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

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

👩‍🦯 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.

🤘 Created by the former mod team of r/AccidentalRenaissance

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submitted 1 year ago by Beastlygr@lemmy.world to c/accidentalrenaissance@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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[–] vivendi@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Where was this picture taken? This looks somehow incredibly like Iran

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[–] Beastlygr@lemmy.world [S] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It’s from Greece. Taken in the 70’s. Found it in my Grandparents photo album.

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[–] vivendi@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago

Damn Greece in the 70s looked so like Iran-coded. Like, it's not even funny you can go in any bazaar in the south and take a picture just like this today

Just a neat observation

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[–] FosterMolasses@leminal.space 2 points 4 months ago

Thank you for sharing this with us

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[–] tomiant@piefed.social 1 point 4 months ago

Octopodes it is!

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