Article 6HC7T Photo of Swansea police arresting drunk man likened to Renaissance art

Photo of Swansea police arresting drunk man likened to Renaissance art

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Helen Pidd
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Image was taken just after midnight on last Friday before Christmas, also known as Black Eye Friday for its drunken revelry

A photograph of police arresting a drunken man outside a Swansea takeaway on Black Eye Friday" has gone viral, with some comparing it to a boozy Renaissance painting" and others seeing the influence of French Romanticism.

One admirer of the shot, by Dimitris Legakis, thought it merited a spot alongside the Mona Lisa and the Venus de Milo: Wind Street. Swansea. Put it in the Louvre."

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