Some insist that it's not just a smartphone, but an iPhone!
When the Austrian painter Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller completed his work of art, The Expected Woman, he did not expect for sure that 150 years later they would study it for all the wrong reasons.
He wanted his painting to live on for centuries. And he lived, although we are no longer occupied by another partisan.
The oil painting shows a woman walking in the countryside holding something in her hands. Behind the touches, some claim to see a smartphone (even an iPhone some), an object that did not even exist in the realm of science fiction.
It is probably a prayer book, although Peter Russell, who better observed the painting on his trip to Munich, thought of asking the world, observing how a small change in a part of the painting could completely transform its meaning.
As he told Motherboard: "What impresses me most is how a change in technology has changed the interpretation of the board, effectively transforming the entire recording frame."
What is this change: “The big change is that in 1850 or 1860, every spectator would recognize the object held by the girl as a prayer book. Today, no one can fail to see the scene as a teenage girl being absorbed in the social media of her smartphone. "
What do you see?