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Life really does mirror art for these people who found their doppelgangers hanging in a gallery
Great artwork has the power to depict thoughts and feelings that every human can recognise.
But a select few gallery-goers may find the experience altogether too recognisable - if they happen to stumble across their art doppelganger.
Art lovers across the globe have shared photos from the moment they discovered their spitting image in old paintings and statues.
From a Renaissance Italian clergyman to a late 19th-century flute player, modern-day visitors to some of the world’s best-loved museums and galleries have identified a striking resemblance between themselves and the portraits of the past.
‘I thought, “Wow, that is really funny, he looks just like me,”’ said Ross Duffin, who found his bearded-double in the form of a 17th century warrior in a Jan van Bijlert - hanging on the wall of a Pasadena museum in California.
In San Francisco’s Fine Arts Museum, one woman found her dead ringer in The Broken Pitcher by William-Adolphe Bouguereau which depicts a French farm girl at a water pump
Modern-day visitors to some of the world’s best-loved museums and galleries have identified a striking resemblance between themselves and the portraits of the past
A select few gallery-goers may find the experience altogether too recognisable - if they happen to stumble across their art doppelganger
Art lovers across the globe have shared photos from the moment they discovered their spitting image in old paintings and statues
‘I thought, “Wow, that is really funny, he looks just like me,”’ said Ross Duffin, who found his bearded-double in the form of a 17th century warrior
Great artwork has the power to depict thoughts and feelings that every human can recognise
One man found his twin in a 2000-year-old portrait of an Egyptian man
Dr Duffin told the New York Times that his wife, Beverly Simmons, was even more stunned than he was when she made the discovery.
‘She came running after me and said, “You have to come back and look at this painting!’” In San Francisco’s Fine Arts Museum, one woman found her dead ringer in The Broken Pitcher by William-Adolphe Bouguereau which depicts a French farm girl at a water pump.
One man found his twin in a 2000-year-old portrait of an Egyptian man while a young woman found hers in a neo-impressionist portrait of Belgian artist Georges Lemmen’s sister.
This man looks more cheerful than his similar counterpart hanging on the wall
People have even found statues resembling their own appearance in galleries
Even though this man has fairly uncommon long blond and curly hair he still spotted his doppelganger
This statue is missing half of its head and has a chipped nose but still looks similar to the man posing next to it
This woman found a painting that appears to look like her paying a wind instrument
This man has the long brown hair to match the painting but is just missing a loyal dog by his side
Trying to recreate the pose of the painting helps the two appear to be even more similar