Sylvester Stallone and A Character in Painting By Raphael

Some say that Raphael, the famous Italian Renaissance painter, hid secrets in his works. Maybe he could even tell the future, as one character in a painting looks remarkably like none other than Rocky Balboa himself, Sylvester Stallone. Or maybe Raphael was a big Rambo fan?

A 20-year-old Harvard student visiting Vatican City spotted the doppelganger in a papal painting of Pope Gregory IX approving the Vatican Decretals. Afterward, his tweet his the photo attached went viral! And it’s pretty easy to see why. The stranger in the painting is a near-identical match for Stallone! Of course, Stallone is far from the only actor with a time-traveling doppelganger…