Winging it

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• AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Fun fact: Those weird paintings of Jesus as an “adult baby” are actually intentional. This was an attempt at representing that in the interpretation of the time, Jesus entered this world already fully perfected/divine, without having to have gone through an “imperfect” phase.

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  • yesman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Also, the visages were of real men. Often the patrons of the painter or someone else to be honored.

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  • MBM@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Just like Renesmee!
    Baby Renesmee from Twilight

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  • klemptor@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Imagine giving birth to that.

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  • Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Counterpoint: look at those hands. Maybe they just weren’t great at some things.

    I’d believe they mastered lighting and painting techniques over accurate physical representation more than “Jesus was a perfect middle aged nippleless man with fucked up hands and that’s represented perfectly here”

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  • ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I can’t think of a single baby oil painting that looks like a baby but maybe I’m remembering wrong or they were all jesus idk

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    • MelodiousFunk@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Huh, I didn’t know people anyone even painted with baby oil.

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    • AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      During the Renaissance, there were certainly a lot of the weirdly adult baby Jesus paintings, but there were also realistic examples from the time (that one is Raphael, one of the great masters).

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    • lautre@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Look at painting of cherubims.

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• resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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  I mean, Wallace Shawn does look a bit like a baby.

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  • makyo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    There are a lot of babies who look like old men and vice versa

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  • Dr_Box@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Both of my kids looked just like that when they were born

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• SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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• EvilBit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Reminded me of this old gem, original source sadly lost to the sands of the web.

  tumblr.com/…/two-medieval-monks-invent-bestiaries

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  • klemptor@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Oh my god I forgot all about Mallory Ortberg’s interpretations of monk paintings! I used to love these.

    Unrelated but she once wrote something like “everyone knows that to properly make a bed, you need to circle it like a shark” and the truth of that has stuck with me ever since. Why is my brain like this haha

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• WanderingThoughts@europe.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Video game designers still do the same for the child NPC’s

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• wjrii@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The part where the baby shoves their hand in your face when you can’t do anything about it is actually pretty accurate. The face you then make as the grown-up is also spot on.

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• fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  “Mother, I require sustenance.”

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• Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Ever seen fingers before?

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  • affiliate@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    those are the carrot looking things that grow out of people’s hands right?

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• Stomata@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I am seeing zero down votes for the first time

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• SabinStargem@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  That is the face of a human who is tired of this childrearing bullshit. Get this person some coffee, stat!

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• saltnotsugar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You know who we should use as a Jesus model? Jeff in accounting.

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• frigidaphelion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Oh god I’m having flashbacks to The Rehearsal season 2

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