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9 celebrities who look exactly like famous works of art

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dakota fanning Portrait of Mary Zouch

  • The new Google Arts and Culture app has a popular feature that matches user selfies to famous portraits.
  • Inspired by the app, we found nine celebrities who look like the subjects of popular paintings.


The Google Arts and Culture app, which first appeared in 2016, is full of gorgeous features perfect for culture aficionados, like virtual tours of art museums and landmarks around the world, zoom-views of paintings, and curated daily digests featuring news and history.

But its most popular feature allows downloaders to match their selfie with a famous portrait, a feature that naturally took off right away, becoming an immediate social media sensation. Celebrities even weighed in on the action, posting their hilarious — and sometimes very accurate results.

We may not have Google's technology, but the Arts and Culture app did get us thinking about our own picks for celebrity döpplegangers in famous paintings. Here's what we came up with.

Johnny Depp resembles "The Desperate Man" by Gustave Courbet

This haunting painting is a actually a self portrait of the artist, as were many of his early works. With himself as his subject, Courbet was able to develop his own unique style.

The deep, dark eyes, long brown hair, and facial hair immediately recall Johnny Depp, who, like Courbet, is known for his bohemian lifestyle. The resemblance is so uncanny that a Google search yields tons of search results along the lines of, "one could conclude that Johnny Depp and Gustave Courbet have the same DNA."



Dakota Fanning looks like the "Portrait of Mary Zouch?" by Hans Holbein the Younger

The true identity of the woman in Holbein's chalk portrait isn't known, but her face looks almost identical to actress Dakota Fanning, especially in the eyes and lips.

Renaissance artist Holbein — who went by "the Younger"to separate him from his famous artist father — worked for several English nobles, among them Anne Boleyn and Thomas Cromwell. We have to wonder if the Fannings have some sort of connection to British royalty.



Adam Driver resembles the "Portrait of Soutine" by Amedeo Modigliani

Modigliani is known for his oddly stretched and assembled portraits — so creepy, that they inspired a scene in last year's horror hit "It." This painting, of fellow artist Chaim Soutine— a peer of Modigliani — is far more innocuous than the scary woman with the flute who terrorizes Stan.

With his distinct features and long black hair, he looks a lot like Kylo Ren himself, Adam Driver.



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