The question – “Is time travel a real thing?” was on many people’s minds after a 350-year-old painting revealed a device that looked very like Apple’s iPhone. Pieter de Hooch, a Dutch painter, created the piece titled “Man Handing a Letter to a Woman in the Entrance Hall.” It depicts a household scenario with a view of one of Amsterdam’s canals in the background. A man standing to the right of the image is holding what appears to be an iPhone in his hands and is getting ready to give it to a woman who is sitting on a chair. Even though the object’s title implies that it is just a letter, numerous conspiracy theorists have conjectured about its origin, which even attracted Apple CEO Tim Cook’s attention.
“There was an iPhone in one of the paintings”
People were perplexed by the unusual attitude, with many believing it was an iPhone despite the fact that they were not invented until 2007. The painting, produced in 1937 by Italian artist Umberto Romano, represents the arrival of immigrants in the town in the 1620s. This isn’t the first time a suspected iPhone similarity has been discovered in a famous painting. Many people found a man holding a little black rectangular object and looked directly at it in the 20th-century artwork titled “Mr. Pynchon and the Settling of Springfield.” A local is seen holding up a small, black rectangular device and staring at it intently, almost as if taking a selfie. The unusual object has left observers perplexed.
At a recent press conference, when asked about the painting, Cook stated that he was astonished to see it and that he was “not so sure” any longer as to whether Apple had invented the iPhone. When the iPhone was first created, he had said, “I always thought I knew when the iPhone was invented, but now I am not so sure anymore,” according to the Daily Star news outlet. It is difficult to see, but I swear it is there, the speaker stated after displaying the image to the crowd. He discovered de Hooch’s work in the Rijksmuseum art gallery in Amsterdam in 2016, where he also discovered the portrait. Cook remarked, “There was an iPhone in one of the paintings.”