Art history nerds like myself love to find humor wherever we can in our discipline. One art history blogger has turned the ability of Renaissance artists to distort the faces of babies to strange grotesques or to the face of an old man--there's nothing much creepier than a baby with an old man face--into the next joke. Laugh on, fellow nerds. [UglyRenaissanceBabies]
We Tumblforya: Ugly Renaissance Babies
Laugh at the most unfortunate art historical time for paintings of babies.
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