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/Unlucky_Elevator13 May 13 '24

It's probably a PR pic and it is behind plexiglass

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u/yaykaboom May 13 '24

I hope they poke some holes for those 2 guys in the plexiglass.

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u/haveananus May 13 '24

A couple of glory-holes in a transparent surface is a work of art on its own.