Why we persist in calling modern photos 'Renaissance paintings' online

A group of Olympians who've collapsed while crossing the finish line. Pop stars dancing in ecstasy. The array of films, seen from another row of seats, watched on an airplane. On X, these photos are all dubbed "Renaissance paintings" due to their varying degrees of resemblance to the work of 15th century Italian masters like Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Michelangelo. Tweet may have been deletedThe European cultural movement first became shorthand online a decade ago, when image