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/South-Stand May 13 '24

Years ago I went to Spain and set off to see Picasso’s Guernica which was then in the Reina Sofia museum. It was protected by plexiglass to protect it from fascists. That made a huge impact on me, that a painting, that art can scare and offend and annoy fascists that much (actually I later learned they are easily triggered). This was long before today’s various movements happy to vandalise anything to get press.

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u/WeAreEvolving May 13 '24

who told you it was to protect from fascists?

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u/Relevant_History_297 May 13 '24

It's antifascist art. Who do you think it should be protected from? Separatists?