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minus-squarewanderer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·6 months ago The thing on the head It’s a halo. Are people unaware of what halos are?
minus-squarejohannesvanderwhales@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·6 months agoThey get depicted pretty differently in old art than they do in pop culture.
minus-squarewanderer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·edit-26 months agoThis style of halos appear a lot in stained glass windows and those are in movies and tv shows often enough that most people have probably seen some.
minus-squareCadeillac@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoThat’s quite the assumption
minus-squarewanderer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 months agoIt’s also in the opening scene of Monty Python’s Life of Brian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pxFr3t-tHw&t=178s
minus-squareCadeillac@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-26 months agoYes, I am unaware that the solid object matching the wall was a halo. I had already thought of that but I have never seen one drawn in this way Edit: Looks like using the wall texture as a halo was in fact a thing
It’s a halo. Are people unaware of what halos are?
They get depicted pretty differently in old art than they do in pop culture.
This style of halos appear a lot in stained glass windows and those are in movies and tv shows often enough that most people have probably seen some.
That’s quite the assumption
It’s also in the opening scene of Monty Python’s Life of Brian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pxFr3t-tHw&t=178s
Yes, I am unaware that the solid object matching the wall was a halo. I had already thought of that but I have never seen one drawn in this way
Edit: Looks like using the wall texture as a halo was in fact a thing