You won't believe it: Doubles of modern stars in old paintings (19 photos)
Well, don't believe in the transmigration of souls after this. It seems that time is just an illusion, and faces and destinies pass from century to century, changing only the scenery
Robert De Niro and Bartholomew Strobel 
Michael Jackson and Barent Fabricius 
Sylvester Stallone and a character from a painting by Raphael 
Peter Dinklage and Sebastian de Morra 
Keanu Reeves and Paul Mounet 
Even earlier, Keanu Reeves "lit up" in a portrait from 1530 
Mark Zuckerberg and Philip IV 
Gerard Depardieu and a man with a beer mug 
Leonid Kanevsky and General Valerian Madatov 
Oleg Mityaev and Count Ludwig von Loewenstein 
Leonid Yarmolnik and the King of Babylon Belshazzar 
No less striking similarities can be found in old photographs. But if the paintings can still be attributed to the artist's imagination, then how can we explain the faces, as if copied from modern stars, in photographs from a century ago?
Alec Baldwin and US President Millard Fillmore 
Bruce Willis and General Douglas MacArthur 
Nicolas Cage and a Confederate soldier (southerners) 
John Travolta and an unknown 
Andrew Garfield and Leon Trotsky 
Conan O'Brien and a Union soldier (Northerners) 
Charlie Sheen and abolitionist John Brown 
Looking at the photos and paintings, Basta's line comes to mind: "They just change our places." Maybe this is really some kind of eternal cycle of faces, destinies and eras? Some leave, others come - but who said that everything will not happen again?
