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Why holy babies look like tiny old men in paintings
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Forget soft chubby cheeks; early religious artists actively wanted infants to heavily resemble highly stressed old men. Believing that holy children were born completely mature and wise, painters deliberately gave newborns deeply receding hairlines, heavily wrinkled foreheads, and fiercely intense glares, resulting in intensely bizarre unchildlike masterpieces.
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