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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
I'm gonna need context
Here's the source: https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/09/20/protesters-arrested-broadview-ice
The caption for this photo is "The Rev. David Black of First Presbyterian Church recoils as a U.S. Customs and Border agents deploy tear gas and pepper balls Friday at the Broadview ICE facility outside Chicago."
Thanks for sharing, this is an incredibly powerful photo. I used your comment as body text when I cross posted this - I hope that was okay
Thank you.
Do we? It's geared-up Gestapo pepper spraying an unarmed priest. Seems pretty clear to me.
i think that's exactly the context they needed
I despise these "I'm inherently the smartest" replies. Yeah I couldn't make out what was happening actually
HUr dUr dO We?