Does This 350-year-old Painting Feature A 'Time Traveller' Using An iPhone? Internet Divided
If we told you that an age-old painting featured an 'iPhone,' would you believe it? Well, Tim Cook, the current CEO of Apple, thought so. Here is what happened.? ?
Another old painting that features a 'phone-like device'
In the painting above, Tim Cook noticed a phone-like device back in 2016. Now, theories about the painting are resurfacing on the internet. The piece was created by Pieter De Hooch, a Dutch Golden Age painter famous for his genre works of quiet domestic scenes with an open doorway. This iconic painting is 350 years.?
Art?enthusiasts around the world very well know that the artwork shows a geezer 'handing a letter' to a woman sitting in front of him. Many many believe the creation contains an easter egg that proves 'time travel' is real. If you notice a woman standing on the extreme right, you can see that the woman has a rectangular object in her hand, which resembles an iPhone.?
How it all started
Back in 2016, Cook paid a visit to Amsterdam¡¯s Rijksmuseum, where the painting is on display, and was dumbfounded by how much it looked like the subject was holding an iPhone.?Speaking to a crowd the day at a press conference after his gallery visit, he said ¡®there was an iPhone¡¯ in Hooch¡¯s painting.??
Cook elaborated that he was taken to the museum by Neelie Kroes, a former Dutch politician, who quipped to people at The Start-up Fest: ¡°Do you happen to know Tim, where and when the iPhone was invented?¡±?Cook replied: ¡°You know, I thought I knew until last night. Last night Neelie took me over to look at some Rembrandt and in one of the paintings I was so shocked. There was an iPhone in one of the paintings.¡±
This isn't the only such painting?
A painting, that you see above, called?The Expected One was painted by Ferdinand George Waldm¨¹ller?way back in 1860.?It's currently being displayed in Neue Pinakothek museum in Munich, Germany, alongside other paintings from the era, but a viewer noticed something very unexpected in the 1860 artwork, and it was?an iPhone.
The artwork depicts a serene scene of a young woman engrossed in what we can only assume is a book while a young man looks on, waiting to present her with a flower.??
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