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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.

๐Ÿ‘‰ 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.

๐Ÿ‘‰ Must be SFW. No gore, porn, extreme violence, blood, corpses, or similarly disturbing content. Absolutely no pornography, even if it's "tasteful".

๐Ÿ‘‰ Comments must be civil. No slurs of any kind or using words to insult, demean, harass, or abuse other individuals or groups.

๐Ÿ‘‰ 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.

๐Ÿ‘‰ NO influencer selfies, professional photoshoots with watermarks, any type of OnlyFans-like content. We are not the place to work your side-hustle.

๐Ÿ“ธ If you know who the photographer is, give them credit in the comment section. This is the only type of self-promotion we allow.

๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿฆฏ 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.

๐Ÿค˜ Created by the former mod team of r/AccidentalRenaissance

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[โ€“] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You derive a lot of information from a single picture.

[โ€“] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

sorry, I'm not following - I don't think I derived much from the picture, other than maybe that it's a man reaching to touch a woman to grab her attention. Beyond that there is the understanding / interpretation of the man as being a particular man, i.e. Olaf Scholz, and likewise that the woman is Annalena Baerbock, but that context is provided by the title more than the photo.

The norms about when it is acceptable to touch people, the way gender alters those dynamics, and so on doesn't derive from the photo at all, it's the other way around - interpretation being applied to the photo.

So are you saying I assume too much, that I am lacking context to muse about gender norms like this, or something else?

[โ€“] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't think any of us have sufficient context from this picture to derive any intent.

The only intent I derive from the photo is that he's trying to get her attention. Do you think the photo provides sufficient context to say he's trying to get her attention?