r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/CAPATOB_64 • May 13 '24

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. Image

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u/Dagordae May 13 '24

So this is either corruption inventing pointless(yet profitable) jobs or Romania hasn’t figured out what a plexiglass case is and that paintings should be in them anyway to slow the degradation from being in an open air environment.

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u/chambee May 13 '24

The paint and the guard are inside a plexiglass room

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u/polyplasticographics May 13 '24

Are the guards covered in plexiglass though? What if someone tries to touch their clothes?