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Cell Phone In A Painting from 1933? There's Also Older Art With iPhones!

84 years ago, Umberto Romano painted "Mr. Pynchon and the Setting of Springfield," which shows a 17th century meeting between Native Americans and English settlers in Massachusetts, but it also shows what seems to be a cell phone.

There is a Native American in a canoe looking at what really resembles an iPhone. His stare is one we all recognize as a person reading something on their device.

Obviously, since the art depicts something from the 1600s, and since the artist created it nearly a century ago, it can't be a cell phone. Art historians suggest it might be a mirror, a Bible, or a blade, but there are people out there who believe artists held secret knowledge of technologies, quietly passing it down for years and hiding it in art. Ā 

It sounds strange, but it's not the first time a "phone" has appeared in an old painting.Ā 

Apple CEO Tim CookĀ once admitted to seeing an iPhone in a 347-year-oldwork byPieter de HoochĀ called "Man Hands a Letter to a Woman in a Hall." Cook saw the Dutch master's piece at a museum in Amsterdam and was shocked. He said in an interview, "I always thought I knew when the iPhone was invented, but now I'm not so sure anymore."

Since the name of the artwork pretty much says it's a letter, it's probably unlikely that it's a cell phone, but who knows?


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