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When I first saw this picture I thought it had to be fake because it looks more like an early photo than a 15XX Century pic. But it is apparently real. So how could we have more of this mind blowing good art?




Just some info's on the painter:

Giovanni Niccolo (also Giovanni Nicolao) was a Jesuit Italian painter who in 1583 was sent to found a seminary of painting, named the Seminary of Painters in Portuguese Japan. This seminary, founded in 1590 and exiled from the Japanese archipelago fewer than three decades later, would become the largest school of western painting in Asia. While there, Niccolo also created devotional objects for use by Japanese Catholic churches and converts. His preferred images were primarily the Salvator Mundi and Madonna
It seems he mostly preferred to paint boring old religious old paintings.
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