Your Brain on Facts

We Can't Have Nice Things: Art & Antiquities Edition


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Ecce Homo was a fresco of Jesus Christ that had degraded significantly over time.  No one asked the little old lady next door to help.  She had no training, but how hard could it really be?  Pretty damn hard, as it turns out.  In place of the Renaissance-style face was now a smeary circle, wreathed in what looks like a marabou balaclava, with a nose like a folk-art sock doll, the crooked, misplaced eyes of a failed anime sketch, and a mouth like a lipstick smear left by a bass.
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