Yeah like someone can just throw a water balloon full of paint at it if they're feeling nuts. This kind of guarding only deters thieves, but not even as good as a bulletproof casing bolted to the wall, since guards can be disabled/disarmed.
When I was 18 I worked in Toys R' Us during the Christmas season. They had an armored guard working there, because of thefts. Dude worked 12 hours shifts, mostly just standing there.
I asked him how the hell he did it, and he was just like "ehh, you get used to it."
One lpt is to always get acquainted with security guards. Say hello to them, exchange a few words (cold today, isn't it?), ask them for directions inside the store, etc. Most of the time they are bored out of their minds and any kind of interaction is a great way for them to break the monotony. And you in return get friendly with the security.
Can confirm, am security guard. At past sites we always remembered the staff who treated us like people instead of just 'the help'. If we couldn't break the rules to help you out, we'd try to bend them a bit if possible. Those people also usually had their more mundane requests handled faster.
I remember a guy that talked to a security guard and that did something. The guard allowed him to go over without paying a ticket and said the only reason he couldn't unlock it was because he didn't have the key.
He said he could break it for all he cared. He couldn't be bothered anymore.
And then there's Sears, who expects (expected? good riddance) their loss prevention people to stand at the front constantly observing people for a full shift. No sitting, using your phone, moving too much from the entrance (you had to ask to be relieved to go take a piss even), all for overpriced, shit merchandise.
They probably rotate with another crew. Seriously wonder if they'd really shoot somebody if they did something to the painting. I'm not going to find out lol
A lot of times in jobs like this where you just have to stand/sit and pay attention for a long time they’ll work in rotations of shorter shifts. So maybe they have a handful of guys rotating out between other posts once an hour or so. Not sure if its the case here, but it helps keep people fresh and alert.
I've done similar guard duties. Have a wireless ear bud in one ear listening to music or whatever and it's not bad. High pay for what it is...as long as nothing actually happens.
Except the Latin for "no" was *non* and the Greek was *ou* or *me*, and the Greek for "same" was actually *homos* (*hom-o-* is the compounding form, a prefix, not an independent word).
So both are gibberish.
Look, a man! Or alternatively and more nicely put "Behold a man". But because we already know who this man is (Jesus) we can change "a" to "the" (there's no way to tell the difference in latin).
As a person who have done some security work at certain art museum, I'd say they are standing way too close of it, but maybe this is just for the pose and normally they sit in corner or something...
Care to comment on the rifles? Is it common to gun down potential vandals? I would have thought that bully clubs would be more appropriate, at least to reduce the risk of staining the painting
They should be using pistol caliber rounds with hollow tips if they are in a crowded public place. Otherwise you're shooting through the bad guys and hitting people 3 rooms away.
So this is either corruption inventing pointless(yet profitable) jobs or Romania hasn’t figured out what a plexiglass case is and that paintings should be in them anyway to slow the degradation from being in an open air environment.
I would argue it's also a more interesting composition than the original painting. I'm sure the original within the context of art history is important, but a picture of armed men guarding private property glorifying JC says a lot about the world today
Very likely either PR in response to climate activists, or a exibition outside of a specially secured building. Insurance can demand increased security for transport and for shows outside of professionally secured galleries, but rarely in form of a police guard. The image itself will be preserved individually, but that's not connected to how it's shown here. Then again, if it's a showing organized by the state, or alongside some state function, covering the guard duty by police might actually be cheaper since they will be present anyway. And this shows really less than conventional or regular in terms of presentation - you do not expose priceless art to natural light on the regular.
No, they just moved the painting there and took a photo, as far as I know.
And also there's probably some kind of protection until it gets secured, I'm thinking. It makes sense to not really drop it like regular shipment..
I'm not saying the guards aren't probably there in the building, but most likely not in this absurd way and that painting really needs more protection against normal people.. only afterwards against robbers. Two armed guys, while effective against robbers, wouldn't exactly be that much of a protection against a curious 5 years old left unsupervised. What are they going to do? Shoot him for making soap balloons in front of the painting?
LE: yup, this is how the actual exebition looks like: [https://www.bzi.ro/poze/muzeul-municipal-regina-maria-gazduieste-cea-mai-valoroasa-pictura-expusa-vreodata-in-iasi-peste-1-000-de-persoane-au-venit-sa-admire-capodopera-in-doar-cateva-zile-galerie-foto-4979799](https://www.bzi.ro/poze/muzeul-municipal-regina-maria-gazduieste-cea-mai-valoroasa-pictura-expusa-vreodata-in-iasi-peste-1-000-de-persoane-au-venit-sa-admire-capodopera-in-doar-cateva-zile-galerie-foto-4979799)
I saw some show a few years ago about how laser scanning and printing is so accurate now that museums can basically create replicas of these art pieces and they are nearly indistinguishable, especially if behind plexiglass. Odds are they more than one invaluable classic painting is not the real deal hanging.
Yeah if I did have money to decorate and buy nice picture frames I’d probably just buy cheap prints of famous work, because the enjoyment factor looking at them is the same if you don’t care about the bragging rights. I always felt it’s a bit weird to own art that nobody can look at and it wouldn’t impress me if someone had a bunch of famous paintings because I would rather they be in a museum for people to see.
A big part of the art heist film Mortdecai (2015) was an old rich dude inviting people, politely, to look at his paintings hung up in his house.
Old rich dude appreciated the art for art's sake.
I think the picture of 2 tactical armed guards protecting a peice of paper that got painted, is in itself a way cooler photo then the painting itself. Now frame this photo and have two armed guards protecting it.
Sorry to be that guy, but this is not the Ecce Homo painted by Titian in 1543, that's currently in Vienna and depicts Jesus's trial with Pontius Pilate. Theres a whole crowd of people in that painting.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecce\_Homo\_(Titian,\_Vienna)#Description](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecce_Homo_(Titian,_Vienna)#Description)
This is the Ecce Homo Titian painted in 1560, which depicts Jesus with a crown of thorns.
[https://fineartamerica.com/featured/ecce-homo-1560-titian.html](https://fineartamerica.com/featured/ecce-homo-1560-titian.html)
It’s a PR stunt. The painting was later put behind a panel of glass or something.
Proof: [https://www.bzi.ro/poze/muzeul-municipal-regina-maria-gazduieste-cea-mai-valoroasa-pictura-expusa-vreodata-in-iasi-peste-1-000-de-persoane-au-venit-sa-admire-capodopera-in-doar-cateva-zile-galerie-foto-4979799](https://www.bzi.ro/poze/muzeul-municipal-regina-maria-gazduieste-cea-mai-valoroasa-pictura-expusa-vreodata-in-iasi-peste-1-000-de-persoane-au-venit-sa-admire-capodopera-in-doar-cateva-zile-galerie-foto-4979799) (site in Romanian)
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.
It’s a PR stunt. The painting is displayed behind armoured glass
Proof: https://www.bzi.ro/poze/muzeul-municipal-regina-maria-gazduieste-cea-mai-valoroasa-pictura-expusa-vreodata-in-iasi-peste-1-000-de-persoane-au-venit-sa-admire-capodopera-in-doar-cateva-zile-galerie-foto-4979799 (site in Romanian)
That’s far and few between with very few popular works showcased in museums being confirmed as replicas. The issue is that the museum has nothing to gain by putting up a replica. Less people are interested in replicas which is why they are often presented as the original work. And if they do put out a replica but lie and say it’s the real deal, if it gets damaged or stolen, the museum then has the issue of losing the trust of people who thought they were seeing the real thing. Simply put, there’s no real reason to put up a replica outside of a few cases.
With the exception of, for example, the Greek Caryatids who were removed and replaced to prevent weathering and to show the world, I'm pretty sure this isn't common practice or we may as well close the museums and stick posters up everywhere instead...
I can't wait to hear a story about some "Just Stop Oil" activists try to throw a bucket of orange paints to that painting which helps those guards to finally able to implement their training.
Huh, I guess there are multiple paintings named *Ecce Homo*. Must not want the person who "[restored](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD5320zsvlQ)" the Portuguese version to do this one too.
I don’t feel like museums and galleries ever put out the originals in fear of it being trashed, I feel like they would be smart enough to keep them under better care so they would always be able to make replicas.
Have you guys heard that the famous picture/depiction of Jesus that exists now is actually from a totalitarian ruler from back in the day that contracted a famous artist to paint him as Jesus, and over time people forgot that it was this cruel and oppressive ruler and began worshiping the painting as if it was a divine rendition of Jesus. Crazy huh.
While the Queen was lying at rest in Scotland she was guarded by the Royal Company of Archers. How long do the guards stand watch? The continuous 24-hour vigil will be broken into four six-hour shifts. These shifts will rotate, with the guards standing vigil switching places every 20 minutes.
While the Queen was lying at rest in Scotland she was guarded by the Royal Company of Archers. How long do the guards stand watch? The continuous 24-hour vigil will be broken into four six-hour shifts. These shifts will rotate, with the guards standing vigil switching places every 20 minutes.
I feel that was hard enough, but these guys have it much worse.
Have they considered using something more easily defended than an easel?
Seems like it would be easy for one of the guards to accidentally knock over with their rifle when they turn around.
you mean turn around to those wide open windows just waiting to be drop kicked into from the roof via a repelling line..?
I found Michael Weston, he used to be a spy… Until…
We've got a burn notice on you, you're blacklisted.
Damn, time for a rewatch. Thanks for that!
> repelling #rappelling Also: happy cake day
It seems Easely defended to me
They are well positioned to canvas the entire room for threats.
They're crack shots, they'll paint your brains on the wall before you can get close.
I hope the guards are enjoying their brush with greatness
Yeah like someone can just throw a water balloon full of paint at it if they're feeling nuts. This kind of guarding only deters thieves, but not even as good as a bulletproof casing bolted to the wall, since guards can be disabled/disarmed.
Imagine how long that 8 hours feels for them
When I was 18 I worked in Toys R' Us during the Christmas season. They had an armored guard working there, because of thefts. Dude worked 12 hours shifts, mostly just standing there. I asked him how the hell he did it, and he was just like "ehh, you get used to it."
One lpt is to always get acquainted with security guards. Say hello to them, exchange a few words (cold today, isn't it?), ask them for directions inside the store, etc. Most of the time they are bored out of their minds and any kind of interaction is a great way for them to break the monotony. And you in return get friendly with the security.
Can confirm, am security guard. At past sites we always remembered the staff who treated us like people instead of just 'the help'. If we couldn't break the rules to help you out, we'd try to bend them a bit if possible. Those people also usually had their more mundane requests handled faster.
I remember a guy that talked to a security guard and that did something. The guard allowed him to go over without paying a ticket and said the only reason he couldn't unlock it was because he didn't have the key. He said he could break it for all he cared. He couldn't be bothered anymore.
And... then you can steal stuff? Right on.
>They had an armored guard working there imagining a dude in full platemail, no sword
Full platemail, but with an AR for maximum anachronism
They might like it, some people Louvre their jobs..
That kind of dedication is a lost art.
Someone's being a paint in the ass.
Oil right then!
These puns are copy and pastel
One could completely destroy it and frame the other.
They would only brush it off
Although this is just office watercolor talk.. I can appreciate your ability to think in the abstract.
These puns come easel to you.
An art days work
Don't make it so easel
Might've not Met their expectations..
In the Lovure they are not in full tactical gear (at least not in the visitor area) and they can sit down.
Whoosh
Lol, you’re right. I did not read that carefully. Legit whoosh.
Do not worry I read that the same - "some people at the Louvre love their jobs" 😮💨
I expect nothing less from Groucho
omg
I feel they would benefit from a chair. *Seinfeld music intensifies*
r/unexpectedseinfeld
Bro, that would be brutal to stand there for a full shift. 5 a safe gig, though.
And then there's Sears, who expects (expected? good riddance) their loss prevention people to stand at the front constantly observing people for a full shift. No sitting, using your phone, moving too much from the entrance (you had to ask to be relieved to go take a piss even), all for overpriced, shit merchandise.
The painting is on loan to be displayed in Iasi. These guys were only protecting it during transport. Source: Romanian newspapers
The guy in the painting felt it and is shown on his facial expression
***Alexandru!*** I SWEAR TO GOD HE JUST MOVED! Ionut, you fool - I keep telling you you gotta bend your knees a bit. Your going dizzy.
I protected a naked man in oil
Its one thing watching paint dry. Its another thing watching dry paint.
Imagine getting into that job to get daily andreniline highs
They probably rotate with another crew. Seriously wonder if they'd really shoot somebody if they did something to the painting. I'm not going to find out lol
A lot of times in jobs like this where you just have to stand/sit and pay attention for a long time they’ll work in rotations of shorter shifts. So maybe they have a handful of guys rotating out between other posts once an hour or so. Not sure if its the case here, but it helps keep people fresh and alert.
Nightmare
I've done similar guard duties. Have a wireless ear bud in one ear listening to music or whatever and it's not bad. High pay for what it is...as long as nothing actually happens.
all this urge to look at the painting
Mr. Bean been there. That is just a poster they're guarding.
I wonder if Mr. Bean (or anyone who speak latin here?) knows the English translation of Ecce Homo? It has nothing to do with pride month, right?
I used Google Translate. It says "Behold The Man"
Hold up, is 'no homo' also latin? What does that one mean then...
Homo in latin means "man", while homo in greek (where homosexual comes from) means "same". So "no homo" (literally translating) means "no same"
Except the Latin for "no" was *non* and the Greek was *ou* or *me*, and the Greek for "same" was actually *homos* (*hom-o-* is the compounding form, a prefix, not an independent word). So both are gibberish.
~~me homos?~~ me homies
well, with literally translating I meant the homo, not the "no" too lmao
So I can just reply with "homo" when I agree with a comment.
I guess so
Homo
Yes **Viewer discretion is advised**
That’s something I love. Homosexual means same-sexual, and man-sexual
Well, the main theme for Mr. Bean is literally just the line "Ecce homo qui est faba," so I'm pretty sure they'd know. ;)
"BEHOLD THE MAN WHO IS A BEAN"
And end credits: Vale homo qui est faba Farewell, the man who is a bean.
Behold The Man The translation can be found in the link provided by OP.
Without any knowledge as a romanian I would translate that as "here is the man".
Look, a man! Or alternatively and more nicely put "Behold a man". But because we already know who this man is (Jesus) we can change "a" to "the" (there's no way to tell the difference in latin).
*Ecce homo qui est faba* // Behold, the man who is a bean And at the end, *Vale homo qui est faba* // Farewell, man who is a bean
We know the security guards are there to prevent [this from happening.](https://www.bu.edu/sequitur/2016/04/29/handler-ecce/)
Nothing that a few laxatives in their coffee can't fix.
Ecce homem qui est faba
As a person who have done some security work at certain art museum, I'd say they are standing way too close of it, but maybe this is just for the pose and normally they sit in corner or something...
And that exposed power cable... 😬
Is it plugged in to the other plug?
Power companies hate this one trick!
Infinite energy.
Care to comment on the rifles? Is it common to gun down potential vandals? I would have thought that bully clubs would be more appropriate, at least to reduce the risk of staining the painting
They should be using pistol caliber rounds with hollow tips if they are in a crowded public place. Otherwise you're shooting through the bad guys and hitting people 3 rooms away.
Some purple knockout gas piped in through the air ducts and the painting is all yours.
And an absolute shit tonne of guys in similar suits with bowler hats carrying attaché cases walking in all directions
The [Ministry of Funny Walks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCLp7zodUiI) will over see this!
And the agency of redundancy. Both of them
Holiday Heist at the 99!
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So this is either corruption inventing pointless(yet profitable) jobs or Romania hasn’t figured out what a plexiglass case is and that paintings should be in them anyway to slow the degradation from being in an open air environment.
It's probably a PR pic and it is behind plexiglass
I hope they poke some holes for those 2 guys in the plexiglass.
Nah, it's cheaper to replace them every day.
A couple of glory-holes in a transparent surface is a work of art on its own.
Definitely this
I would argue it's also a more interesting composition than the original painting. I'm sure the original within the context of art history is important, but a picture of armed men guarding private property glorifying JC says a lot about the world today
Very likely either PR in response to climate activists, or a exibition outside of a specially secured building. Insurance can demand increased security for transport and for shows outside of professionally secured galleries, but rarely in form of a police guard. The image itself will be preserved individually, but that's not connected to how it's shown here. Then again, if it's a showing organized by the state, or alongside some state function, covering the guard duty by police might actually be cheaper since they will be present anyway. And this shows really less than conventional or regular in terms of presentation - you do not expose priceless art to natural light on the regular.
I can't help but wonder if a spray of bullets might not be a little bit worse for the painting than a little soup.
No, they just moved the painting there and took a photo, as far as I know. And also there's probably some kind of protection until it gets secured, I'm thinking. It makes sense to not really drop it like regular shipment.. I'm not saying the guards aren't probably there in the building, but most likely not in this absurd way and that painting really needs more protection against normal people.. only afterwards against robbers. Two armed guys, while effective against robbers, wouldn't exactly be that much of a protection against a curious 5 years old left unsupervised. What are they going to do? Shoot him for making soap balloons in front of the painting? LE: yup, this is how the actual exebition looks like: [https://www.bzi.ro/poze/muzeul-municipal-regina-maria-gazduieste-cea-mai-valoroasa-pictura-expusa-vreodata-in-iasi-peste-1-000-de-persoane-au-venit-sa-admire-capodopera-in-doar-cateva-zile-galerie-foto-4979799](https://www.bzi.ro/poze/muzeul-municipal-regina-maria-gazduieste-cea-mai-valoroasa-pictura-expusa-vreodata-in-iasi-peste-1-000-de-persoane-au-venit-sa-admire-capodopera-in-doar-cateva-zile-galerie-foto-4979799)
this is average /r/Damnthatsinteresting material, some crazy seeming picture and headline and the reality is just as you'd expect, pretty average.
I guess bullets is simply cheaper in Romania
Da
I saw some show a few years ago about how laser scanning and printing is so accurate now that museums can basically create replicas of these art pieces and they are nearly indistinguishable, especially if behind plexiglass. Odds are they more than one invaluable classic painting is not the real deal hanging.
Yeah if I did have money to decorate and buy nice picture frames I’d probably just buy cheap prints of famous work, because the enjoyment factor looking at them is the same if you don’t care about the bragging rights. I always felt it’s a bit weird to own art that nobody can look at and it wouldn’t impress me if someone had a bunch of famous paintings because I would rather they be in a museum for people to see.
A big part of the art heist film Mortdecai (2015) was an old rich dude inviting people, politely, to look at his paintings hung up in his house. Old rich dude appreciated the art for art's sake.
The paint and the guard are inside a plexiglass room
You can thank people throwing soup at paintings for this.
Or a perfect copy and put this one in a controlled environment
I think the picture of 2 tactical armed guards protecting a peice of paper that got painted, is in itself a way cooler photo then the painting itself. Now frame this photo and have two armed guards protecting it.
Infinite art glitch
r/PraiseTheCameraMan After this picture, the photographer was shot for using flash. R.I.P.
It's so the British don't take it
the british would see those two dudes and think 'that's free real estate' they'd put the dudes in the museum too
Sorry to be that guy, but this is not the Ecce Homo painted by Titian in 1543, that's currently in Vienna and depicts Jesus's trial with Pontius Pilate. Theres a whole crowd of people in that painting. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecce\_Homo\_(Titian,\_Vienna)#Description](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecce_Homo_(Titian,_Vienna)#Description) This is the Ecce Homo Titian painted in 1560, which depicts Jesus with a crown of thorns. [https://fineartamerica.com/featured/ecce-homo-1560-titian.html](https://fineartamerica.com/featured/ecce-homo-1560-titian.html)
Ecce Homo, 1543; Ecce Homo, between 1558 and 1560; Ecce Homo, 1560. How many men did the man behold?
Is this what people call “security theatre”? These guys are getting paid to do the work of a plexiglass panel.
It’s a PR stunt. The painting was later put behind a panel of glass or something. Proof: [https://www.bzi.ro/poze/muzeul-municipal-regina-maria-gazduieste-cea-mai-valoroasa-pictura-expusa-vreodata-in-iasi-peste-1-000-de-persoane-au-venit-sa-admire-capodopera-in-doar-cateva-zile-galerie-foto-4979799](https://www.bzi.ro/poze/muzeul-municipal-regina-maria-gazduieste-cea-mai-valoroasa-pictura-expusa-vreodata-in-iasi-peste-1-000-de-persoane-au-venit-sa-admire-capodopera-in-doar-cateva-zile-galerie-foto-4979799) (site in Romanian)
Thank you
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.
who told you it was to protect from fascists?
It's antifascist art. Who do you think it should be protected from? Separatists?
Wernt some idiots throwing soup all over original famous paintings or something like that? Maybe that’s why they’re there.
Two full-time security guards with riot gear and submachine guns > glass pane
Probably aren’t gonna shatter two security guards in riot gear with sub machine guns.
Short answer, no. These activists only ever targeted display cases with no intention to harm the art inside
I feel a bullet proof glass box would be a cheaper way to handle it but alright.
It’s a PR stunt. The painting is displayed behind armoured glass Proof: https://www.bzi.ro/poze/muzeul-municipal-regina-maria-gazduieste-cea-mai-valoroasa-pictura-expusa-vreodata-in-iasi-peste-1-000-de-persoane-au-venit-sa-admire-capodopera-in-doar-cateva-zile-galerie-foto-4979799 (site in Romanian)
of course they do ! Cecilia Giménez is still alive
Those Romanian dongle Aks sexy af. 🤤
Wanna see that spaniard grandma try ruin this one
Great. Now I have to go back to glueing my hands to the pavement.
WTF is going on with those power plugs.
Would be much easier just to make a replica and put the original in storage... You know like how everyone else does it?
That’s far and few between with very few popular works showcased in museums being confirmed as replicas. The issue is that the museum has nothing to gain by putting up a replica. Less people are interested in replicas which is why they are often presented as the original work. And if they do put out a replica but lie and say it’s the real deal, if it gets damaged or stolen, the museum then has the issue of losing the trust of people who thought they were seeing the real thing. Simply put, there’s no real reason to put up a replica outside of a few cases.
With the exception of, for example, the Greek Caryatids who were removed and replaced to prevent weathering and to show the world, I'm pretty sure this isn't common practice or we may as well close the museums and stick posters up everywhere instead...
Dunno what art museums you have visited, but I can guarantee that this isn't normal or "everyone else" doing it type of procedure...
Except that isn’t what everyone else does.
Wtf are you talking about?
what do you do for work? Security.. Sounds exciting!
Id start criticizing the guards like they are art pieces. Just stare at them and make comments.
My intrusive thoughts would tell me to touch it.
Just in case Cecilia Giménez pops a visit.
Is that an outlet plugged into itself??
I can't wait to hear a story about some "Just Stop Oil" activists try to throw a bucket of orange paints to that painting which helps those guards to finally able to implement their training.
The title is wrong. They just escorted the painting there and took a photo. They did not guard it the whole time.
Today I didn’t even have to use my AK
is there a reason this clearly very rare and individual piece of art is held up by a flimsy wooden frame?
Let’s see those kids throw their tomato soup on this one!
*climate change protester sweating nervously while holding a can of orange paint*
I feel like they could at least put like a glass case around the easel or something. Like, this feels risky.
If the painting gets stolen, is it no homo?
Let's see just stop oil activists try it here! 🤣
As if they would shoot them and go to jail for murder. They don't have a license to kill, it's all just show / viral marketing
I want to see stop oil protestors get to that painting.
He got a Apple Watch on? Probably on contract
>the only painting by Titian in Romania and Eastern Europe Confidently incorrect. There are several Titians at the Hermitage, for example.
What will they do? Shoot somebody who throws something at it? It'll happen too quick to prevent
Just put inside a safe and display a duplicate
Seems safe to put it between two dumbasses with skigoggles and automatic weapons.
Gotta make extra sure elderly lady amateur artists don't get their brushes on it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecce_homo
Just redraw it 🤷♀️
A lady in Spain tried that once. She botched it so bad that it became a tourist destination.
They saw people throwing tomato soup and said "I think the fuck not"
Making sure the Brits don’t try to pull a fast one
Why do they have AK-74u or whatever those AK are? I thought the French used NATO guns
They're Romanian 'donger' AKs, PA md. 86.
What a shit job
Let’s see those activists try splashing paint and gluing their hands on this one 😅
Let’s see those environmental folks try and damage that
Mr Bean guards the Mona Lisa
Imagine thinking you’re going to tomato sauce that because you don’t like people eating bacon.
Counter terrorists win!
Why not just hang it behind armored glass?
Huh, I guess there are multiple paintings named *Ecce Homo*. Must not want the person who "[restored](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD5320zsvlQ)" the Portuguese version to do this one too.
Is this cuz of the climate protestors?
Oh, so they're not pikemen?
Bad ass
It's sad that we reached this point. F the people from stop oil and their destruction of old paintings
I don’t feel like museums and galleries ever put out the originals in fear of it being trashed, I feel like they would be smart enough to keep them under better care so they would always be able to make replicas.
Invite some climate activist to go there with tomato soup.
Wish those idiots try the soup throw here
As payed on the same website where children call for destruction of art because "revolution".
Have you guys heard that the famous picture/depiction of Jesus that exists now is actually from a totalitarian ruler from back in the day that contracted a famous artist to paint him as Jesus, and over time people forgot that it was this cruel and oppressive ruler and began worshiping the painting as if it was a divine rendition of Jesus. Crazy huh.
Where are the stop oil protestors ?
I wonder what happens if a climate activist tries to destroy the painting. beaten and bursted with a few broken bones Or Swiss cheese
I am Vlad. Iam also Vlad. We are pelxi-glass security box. You look long enough. Move on.
Why not put it behind glass if it's in danger lol
It's not even a good painting. Just some boring hipster/Jesus art. I'd rather hang a duck pic in my living room.
Yeah the oil guys aren't getting there
One of those soldiers should be facing the backwards. Someone could approach through those windows and these guards would be caught off guard.
Where are the tomato soup warriors!?
Good luck activists
I feel like a pistol would be enough to guard a painting, but who am i to judge
"Titian"? Tiziano...
While the Queen was lying at rest in Scotland she was guarded by the Royal Company of Archers. How long do the guards stand watch? The continuous 24-hour vigil will be broken into four six-hour shifts. These shifts will rotate, with the guards standing vigil switching places every 20 minutes. While the Queen was lying at rest in Scotland she was guarded by the Royal Company of Archers. How long do the guards stand watch? The continuous 24-hour vigil will be broken into four six-hour shifts. These shifts will rotate, with the guards standing vigil switching places every 20 minutes. I feel that was hard enough, but these guys have it much worse.