There’s a statue of some Roman dude in the Louvre that looks exactly like he’s taking a selfie with a smart phone.
We LOL’d and snickered and took a bunch of pictures of THAT one, like the low-culture rednecks that we basically are. ;-)
This guy:
https://ezillmer.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/059.jpg
totally unrelated sidebar:
Horatio Greenough made a really ill-considered tribute statue to George Washington that was immediately lampooned even at the time it was unveiled. One wag captioned it, “my body lies on Mt Vernon, my clothes are upstairs.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:George_Washington_Greenough_statue.jpg
