What if Photoshop existed in the time of Botticelli and Goya? The paintings would have been decidedly different ...

Eliminating cellulite, flattening the belly, outlining the face are just some of the numerous interventions that are carried out daily on glossy photographs to respect the unrealistic, and often unattainable, beauty standards imposed by the media world.

History has taught us that the canons of beauty were once very different, in fact none of the models represented in the paintings of the greatest painters, from Titian to Rubens to Gauguin, could have fit in a size 38. But how would these famous works of art be if Photoshop had already existed in their time?

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