Amazing This fresco of the 16th century is breathtaking until you look closer ... Then It Gets Bizarre

This fresco of the 16th century is breathtaking until you look closer ... Then It Gets Bizarre -

As much as we exalt secular paintings as "high art", much of what is shown are only scenes of naked people hanging in nature.

And this one is no exception.

In reviewing Giulio The version of Romano's wedding banquet of Cupid and Psyche painted from 1526-1528, Redditor porcellus_ultor admired the beautiful and often erotic detail which characterizes the last years of the Renaissance ... until he noticed a figure hidden in the bushes. He seems to be enjoying the festivities a bit bare too much, nestled suspicious background. Can you identify?

Here is the famous marriage of Cupid and Psyche as described by Lucius Apuleius Madaurensis in his novel of the second century "Metamorphoses". [1945008style]

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Cupid was sent by the jealous Venus to force Psyche to fall in love with someone hideous, but the god of desire was struck by his own arrow and immediately fell in love with the beautiful mortal woman.

But it seems that this marriage of A-list was crushed.

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not, we are not talking drunken satyrs. Anyone antiquity waiting to find the party.

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who this creep ... and why is he shirtless in the bushes ??

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Some Reddit commentators have suggested that's exactly what you think - Romano painted a voyeur giving the hottest celebrity wedding in Roman mythology. Others think it is possible that this figure is just a Hermes, a kind of sculpture used by the Greeks to mark the boundaries of the earth.

Anyway, it is a frightening find.

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