Imagine giving birth to that.
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AbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.space 10 months 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.
klemptor@startrek.website 10 months ago
Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 10 months 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”
yesman@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Also, the visages were of real men. Often the patrons of the painter or someone else to be honored.
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 10 months 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
lautre@jlai.lu 10 months ago
Look at painting of cherubims.
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
JD Vance looking motherfuckers
AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 10 months 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).
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Nice
MelodiousFunk@startrek.website 10 months ago
Huh, I didn’t know people anyone even painted with baby oil.
MBM@lemmings.world 10 months ago
Just like Renesmee!
Baby Renesmee from Twilight