For once, Suri Polomare has an original idea. Unfortunately, it's a new way to steal other creatures' creative work.

So why is Princess Twilight helping her?

I wondered, how could a cover image that ridiculously inserts Equestrian pony stuff into a classic work of great human art, be made a fully accurate (if possibly misleading) depiction of a scene within the story itself?

(Story's cover image: Based on a pieta by Annibale Carracci, 1550-1609. Some alterations by me.)

Content Warning: Twilight Sparkle is not a perfect source of information on the human worlds' theologies.