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Accidental Renaissance
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.
๐ 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.
๐ Must be SFW. No gore, porn, extreme violence, blood, corpses, or similarly disturbing content. Absolutely no pornography, even if it's "tasteful".
๐ Comments must be civil. No slurs of any kind or using words to insult, demean, harass, or abuse other individuals or groups.
๐ 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.
๐ NO influencer selfies, professional photoshoots with watermarks, any type of OnlyFans-like content. We are not the place to work your side-hustle.
๐ธ If you know who the photographer is, give them credit in the comment section. This is the only type of self-promotion we allow.
๐ฉโ๐ฆฏ 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.
๐ค Created by the former mod team of r/AccidentalRenaissance
The helmet on the left looks like one used in American football (I think? maybe it's a different sport?) and now that I look at this image again the one second from right looks like a helmet one might wear on a bicycle or scooter.
Edit: The image you linked to is a lot higher clearer and doesn't look AI generated, I think it might have been a photo that was AI upscaled/processed and between then between now and the original post fell victim badly to JPEG compression.
I think you're absolutely right! Bad compression and/or A.I. processing. Thanks for solving this mystery with me! I am always prepared to point out A.I. when I see it, so I was concerned that I had managed to miss this one. Cheers!