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minus-squareCadeillac@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoThe thing on the head being in front of the opening as opposed to in it is really bothering me
minus-squarewanderer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months ago The thing on the head It’s a halo. Are people unaware of what halos are?
minus-squarejohannesvanderwhales@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoThey get depicted pretty differently in old art than they do in pop culture.
minus-squarewanderer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-24 months agoThis style of halos appear a lot in stained glass windows and those are in movies and tv shows often enough that most people have probably seen some.
minus-squareCadeillac@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoThat’s quite the assumption
minus-squarewanderer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoIt’s also in the opening scene of Monty Python’s Life of Brian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pxFr3t-tHw&t=178s
minus-squareCadeillac@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-24 months agoYes, I am unaware that the solid object matching the wall was a halo. I had already thought of that but I have never seen one drawn in this way Edit: Looks like using the wall texture as a halo was in fact a thing
minus-squareNeatNit@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agocan’t unsee the circle thing
minus-squareCadeillac@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoI can’t figure out what it is. It matches the wall the other two are against
minus-squarewanderer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoIt’s a halo. He is a saint in Christianity.
minus-squareCadeillac@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoOf course, the old solid wood halos!
minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoOriginally halos depicted either a disk or escaping rays of light surrounding the head of the “holy person” in question, so people know who the good guy was and you’re not supposed to cheer for the cremation or whatever.
minus-squareCadeillac@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoThank you for the explanation! Today I learned
minus-squarenxdefiant@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agocremortionist hath slain me.
minus-squarebrbposting@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months ago(IMPOSSIBLE) Big bonus points to anyone who legit updates that Wiki caption
minus-squareCadeillac@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoHave we explored the idea that they are pulling him out of the oven?
minus-squareZerush@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoThe martyrium of St.Veit, Museum Belvedere, Austria.
The thing on the head being in front of the opening as opposed to in it is really bothering me
It’s a halo. Are people unaware of what halos are?
They get depicted pretty differently in old art than they do in pop culture.
This style of halos appear a lot in stained glass windows and those are in movies and tv shows often enough that most people have probably seen some.
That’s quite the assumption
It’s also in the opening scene of Monty Python’s Life of Brian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pxFr3t-tHw&t=178s
Yes, I am unaware that the solid object matching the wall was a halo. I had already thought of that but I have never seen one drawn in this way
Edit: Looks like using the wall texture as a halo was in fact a thing
can’t unsee the circle thing
I can’t figure out what it is. It matches the wall the other two are against
It’s a halo. He is a saint in Christianity.
Of course, the old solid wood halos!
Originally halos depicted either a disk or escaping rays of light surrounding the head of the “holy person” in question, so people know who the good guy was and you’re not supposed to cheer for the cremation or whatever.
Thank you for the explanation! Today I learned
cremortionist hath slain me.
(IMPOSSIBLE)
Big bonus points to anyone who legit updates that Wiki caption
Have we explored the idea that they are pulling him out of the oven?
The martyrium of St.Veit, Museum Belvedere, Austria.
Holy human pizza.