quoms:

my gf and i realised halfway through our italy trip (which of course involved going in 100,000 catholic churches and looking at 200,000 religious renaissance paintings) that they never depict mary as more than 20 years old and truly once you see it you can’t unsee it

it fucking blows too because you just know it’s about this ideology where she’s perfect and sinless and whatnot but all that does is equate sin with having wrinkles and saggy tits. fuck that. the lady died of old age probably with the same grey hair and bad back as every other human being, she watched her son die in her late 40s and yet every depiction of it has her looking ten years younger than him. have some goddamn respect