dudeone Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 By Eliza Murphy Man Finds His Doppelganger in 16th Century Italian Painting http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/11/man-finds-his-doppelganger-in-16th-century-italian-painting/ Courtesy Nikkie Curtis What started out as a leisurely stroll through the Philadelphia Museum of Art on Nov. 11 with his girlfriend, quickly turned into quite a surreal experience for Max Galuppo, 20, of Bloomsbury, N.J. Galuppo, a Temple University student, found his doppelganger in a 16th century Italian painting by an unknown artist titled “Portrait of a Nobleman with Dueling Gauntlet.” “It was really weird. He goes to Temple so we’d been saying for a while we wanted to go to the art museum,” his girlfriend, Nikkie Curtis, told ABCNews.com. “We went into the armor exhibit and he loved the helmets. He was completely oblivious to it, and I walked past it and was like, ‘Do you see this painting right now? It looks just like you.’” Although Galuppo’s resemblance to the dark haired, huskily built, bearded face seems obvious to the 735 Reddit users who have commented on the photo since Curtis uploaded it to the site late Sunday night, Galuppo, at first, said he failed to recognize the similarity. “To be honest, I didn’t see it. I didn’t see the resemblance,” Galuppo said. “And then I saw the picture of me next to it, and you can’t deny that.” The couple had no idea the photo would garner so much attention, but is enjoying the humor people are getting out of it. Galuppo has even been propositioned to pose with the portrait, painted in 1562, again, in full matching attire. “Someone on on Reddit actually offered to make a costume for it. If we could find a costume, he’d be 110 percent behind that idea. He would definitely do it,” Curtis said. Once the photo started swirling around the Internet, Galuppo decided he should probably look into the portrait’s history a bit more, which actually proved quite enlightening to him. “It’s actually funny because I tried to research the painting as much as I could. There’s not a lot of information from it. The area that the painting is from in Italy, that area is actually where my grandparents are from. I might check out Ancestry.com to see if there’s a relationship,” Galuppo said. The museum acquired the portrait as part of the John G. Johnson collectionin 1917. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theminister Posted November 28, 2012 Share Posted November 28, 2012 If you ever been to the Vatican you will have seen a nice painting of Sylvester Stallone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tystick Posted November 29, 2012 Share Posted November 29, 2012 Hahaha that's awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NightHawkSniper Posted November 29, 2012 Share Posted November 29, 2012 Pretty cool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nucklehead Posted November 29, 2012 Share Posted November 29, 2012 dop·pel·gäng·er or dop·pel·gang·er (dpl-gngr, -gng-) n. A ghostly double of a living person, especially one that haunts its fleshly counterpart. I don't think doppelganger is the word they're looking for here... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nucklehead Posted November 29, 2012 Share Posted November 29, 2012 dp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostsof1915 Posted November 29, 2012 Share Posted November 29, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EX_Bert_Worshipper Posted November 29, 2012 Share Posted November 29, 2012 P.S. Warning: The song has "naughty" words. But, it's Zeromancer, so that's okay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kamero89 Posted November 29, 2012 Share Posted November 29, 2012 lol in both cases, these guys are Italian. People of Italian heritage have A LOT of similar traits. Funny how genetics work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mainly Mattias Posted November 29, 2012 Share Posted November 29, 2012 you'd have thought he'd have gotten better looking through the centuries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nucklehead Posted November 29, 2012 Share Posted November 29, 2012 ^ Nope, looks like you're stuck with your homely mug for eternity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Kassassin Train Posted November 29, 2012 Share Posted November 29, 2012 lol in both cases, these guys are Italian. People of Italian heritage have A LOT of similar traits. Funny how genetics work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. White Posted November 29, 2012 Share Posted November 29, 2012 Doppelganger is an awesome word Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jägermeister Posted November 29, 2012 Share Posted November 29, 2012 All Italians look the same anyway, can't tell any of them apart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gumballthechewy Posted November 29, 2012 Share Posted November 29, 2012 dop·pel·gäng·er or dop·pel·gang·er (dpl-gngr, -gng-) n. A ghostly double of a living person, especially one that haunts its fleshly counterpart. I don't think doppelganger is the word they're looking for here... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreatDane36 Posted December 6, 2012 Share Posted December 6, 2012 reminds me of the giguere lookalike czar nicolas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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