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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.

👉 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.

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

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

👉 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.

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

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

👩‍🦯 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.

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Emily Feiner, social worker, physically dragged out of NY-17 Rep. Mike Lawler's town hall Sunday night (r.50501.chat)

submitted 1 year ago by rozlav@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/accidentalrenaissance@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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cross-posted from: https://50501.chat/post/188367

Originally Posted By u/pbeenard16046 At 2025-05-05 10:41:48 AM | Source

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[–] Tiger@sh.itjust.works 54 points 1 year ago

Great spirit lady, inspirational to me today.

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 52 points 1 year ago

What a badass, posing for the camera as she's taken out. Props to the photographer also for this excellent pic

[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago

I remeber when americans used to sell us the USA be "the land of the free" and the peak of democracy... oh boy...lol

[–] Hexarei@programming.dev 33 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Looks like a Renaissance painting

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[–] errer@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Accidental even

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[–] Hexarei@programming.dev 38 points 1 year ago

I totally missed what community this was lmao

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[–] volcano@nerdculture.de 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

@rozlav What’s the arm badge on the man’s shirt? Anyone know?

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[–] Xaphanos@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

It looks like a NYS police trooper.

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[–] HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

Looks like a fucking brown shirt, that's what he looks like

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[+] kindenough@kbin.earth 1 point 1 year ago

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