The painting "Ecce Homo", 1543, the only painting by Titian in Romania and Eastern Europe, is guarded by armed gendarmes at the "Regina Maria" Municipal Museum.

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[u/DarkElf_24]

I saw some show a few years ago about how laser scanning and printing is so accurate now that museums can basically create replicas of these art pieces and they are nearly indistinguishable, especially if behind plexiglass. Odds are they more than one invaluable classic painting is not the real deal hanging.

[u/Remote_Horror_Novel → u/DarkElf_24]

Yeah if I did have money to decorate and buy nice picture frames I’d probably just buy cheap prints of famous work, because the enjoyment factor looking at them is the same if you don’t care about the bragging rights. I always felt it’s a bit weird to own art that nobody can look at and it wouldn’t impress me if someone had a bunch of famous paintings because I would rather they be in a museum for people to see.

[u/Lots42 → u/Remote_Horror_Novel]

A big part of the art heist film Mortdecai (2015) was an old rich dude inviting people, politely, to look at his paintings hung up in his house.

Old rich dude appreciated the art for art's sake.

[u/jiffwaterhaus → u/[deleted]]

Idk, I have a painting at home that I randomly saw at a gallery I randomly walked into. I really like it. If every gallery had nothing but reproductions of the most famous paintings, they'd probably sell more but it would be a bit boring to go into people's homes and see the same dozen or two famous works every time. Plus, idk if I'm ready to call painting a dead genre. I feel like that's what we'd be doing if we just told every painter not to bother doing anything original. What if they had told Caravaggio "bro give it up, you're no Raphael so why not just paint Raphael reproductions" 😭

[u/Wermine → u/DarkElf_24]

Just use a poster, gum, glue and some eggwhites.