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latinotiktok

glazecake

rikachanhonpo on ig

bouncyirwin

It’s so pretty 🥺

studentlifeproblems

bouncyirwin

The mood this quarantine

vpandav

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spideylilparker

Current Quarantine Mood

officialdamonalbarn

where is that renaissance painting with those two fellers and a giant fucking random skull on the floor that looks like it was accidentally stretched out in photoshop

officialdamonalbarn

THANK YOU

hickeywiththegoodhair

somebody please explain

dykemisspiggy

Someone once told me it’s like that because it was designed to be hung in a stairwell so the skull pops out as you walk past.

iwilltrytobereasonable

…I guess it works but you have to be at a pretty sharp angle

caecilius-est-pater

There was a whole trend at one point where artists would include something in their paintings (usually a skull, for whatever reason) that’s super distorted in just the right way so that it looks normal if you hold the painting up to a convex/concave mirror. I have absolutely no idea why. But I think that’s what’s going on here.

crtter

In case anyone’s curious, here’s what it looks like when you walk past it irl:

It does have a 3D effect to it! It’s pretty neat, guess it would be even more impressive to people from the 14th century.

midnightvoyager

honestly, people just looking at the skull are missing the real deal here

You can read any implied text you see in this thing, even the book, that’s how detailed it is. Look at the painting on those letters!

jesus christ you’re just showing off now, Hans!

HANS OH MY GOD

anyway, the skull apparently had some meaning about the transcendence of death, you can only see it clearly when you can’t see the world clearly and vice versa, but man, I’m all about the detail in this guy’s shit