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
Image Transcription:
[ A slightly faded photo of a dozen or so people bent down in a deep yellow field of cut wheat, picking up stray stalks of wheat where the mechanized harvester has left the field looking prickly up close, and striped from farther away. To the left of the group, the wheat stands tall, uniform, and unharvested. In the distance, soft-looking hills sit beneath a blue-grey sky. ]
It is very reminiscent of a realist painting by Jean-Francois Millet called The Gleaners
I was thinking Van Gogh. He did loads of paintings of peasants in fields.
You're right, I think of all his paintings of farm workers, its most similar to The Red Vineyard in Arles but like you said there are quite a few.
Farm workers and peasant life became a fairly popular topic for artists mid 19th to early 20th century, as popular culture moved away from the idealistic art of flowery Rococo portraits to realism, and then to impressionism (with other isms in between of course).