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Consider yourself warned. Once you register this side by side you cannot easily unpair them. Someone noticed Vladimir Putin shares a surprising number of facial feature alignments with the Mona Lisa and compiled the comparison. Nose length, mouth shape, eye spacing, even the subdued half smile all echo. Pattern recognition is relentless and the brain rewards itself for mapping one iconic face onto another. The resemblance triggers whimsical speculation about time travel or hidden historical lookalikes. More realistically it demonstrates how a few proportional ratios recur across many faces and how framing and lighting amplify perceived similarity. The viral spark here is not a claim of connection but the delightful jolt of seeing a revered Renaissance portrait reframed next to a modern political figure. It is a study in how digital culture repurposes art to create fresh humor while nudging viewers to reexamine both images carefully. Coincidence plus clever presentation equals a lasting meme seed.

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