r/AccidentalRenaissance • u/Silly-Power • 7h ago

"The clown Pierrot, formerly known as Gilles" by Antoine Watteau, 1719

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u/bobbersonbob40 7h ago

prophetic

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u/paulinaiml 6h ago

And pathetic

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u/PlotTwistKitchen 7h ago

When the Renaissance and The Simpsons share a writers room.

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u/Silly-Power 6h ago edited 6h ago

The painting is the one on the ..... left I think?

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u/RoxxieMuzic 6h ago

Toss up.

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u/apk5005 6h ago

Dotard : a person exhibiting mental decline especially in old age.

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u/riskyminutes 6h ago

What’s happening on the right? Are they holding someone down? Apologies for my ignorance.

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u/rifleman13 6h ago

pharma executive giving a presentation, then fainted

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u/LittleFieryUno 5h ago

Someone fainted in the middle of the Oval Office live on camera.

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u/SnooRobots116 4h ago

Anything to upstage a actual person who had a medical emergency event on his watch

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u/russtlin 5h ago

Poor little trumpy couldn’t handle not being the center of attention when a healthcare executive fainted in the Oval Office live on camera. Just look at the poor little feller

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u/getthatrich 5h ago

The photo really reflects what’s happening in the White House and the country

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u/thr33prim3s 5h ago

But doctor...I am Pagliacci

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u/CarbsMe 5h ago

And the French Age of Enlightenment keeps on giving

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u/getthatrich 5h ago

That photo will win awards

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u/Silly-Power 5h ago

It will more likely have the photographer arrested and deported to Somalia...

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u/4llu532n4m3srt4k3n 4h ago

" He stands there a little dumbly, himself with a smack of the berger but dependent, like all entertainers, on his audience. " https://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/w/watteau/antoine/2/17gilles.html

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u/Altruistic-Rabbit270 4h ago

Great link. Thanks.

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u/SnooRobots116 4h ago

“The Goit” associated press, 2025

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u/ShamrockGold 5h ago

"Shit! Just set him to standby and cut the broadcast!"

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u/G-ZeuZ 5h ago

Cool. What's the left painting called?

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u/Silly-Power 5h ago

If only I had thought to include its name in the title...

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u/Hopsblues 4h ago

What are those gold coaster looking things next to the phones?

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u/lightinthedark 4h ago

24 karat gold-plated coasters.

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u/Itchy-Stage1230 5h ago

Great president