Italian Renaissance Aficionado Pillows

"...My daughter, the model..."

The DaVinci Code

Bacchus.

"I was sent down to the minors and from there to Europe, and one thing just led to another."

Repurposing the aqueducts of Ancient Rome.

"The Leonardos, the Raphaels, Titians, Veroneses, Giottos... Italy wants them back, all 427 of them."

Italia tours

New Coat of Paint at the Sistine Condos

Raphael

Fully aware of the dangerous romance of Venice's canals and bridges, Gwendolyn approached this moment with a degree of caution.

Scarpia's Palace

Leonardo Da Vinci paints a selfie

Borgias holding a 'come as you wish to go' party

Michelangelo is painting the Sistine Chapel ceiling and a priest comes to check how he's going - 'Michelangelo, what the hell is that? I just wanted a couple of coats of duck-egg blue!'

'Mona Lisa, would it make you happy if I gave you a foot massage every night?'

'Gerald was stripping some old wallpaper, and there it was - Leonard Da Vinci's lost fresco ‘The Battle of Anghiari'.'

He's the first Master Sculptor since the Renaissance also trained as a Mohel.

Tosca stabs Scarpia

Leonardo Da Vinci's Cat

Petrarch

"I have to pee!"

'Could you tone down the smile just a little?'

"I'm really gonna miss Rome."

'We go to Italy in the summer - it's like a home from home for the kids!'

"Yeah, don't worry about the smile; I'll just wing it."

"Why, Giambattista Tiepolo, you old so-and-so! Who knew you could paint?"

"Michaelangelo the order is clear, the ceiling was meant to be magnolia."

Leonardo's first drawing

"Man, I hate jester auditions."

Michelangelo eh...well you're going to have to come up with some ID!

Michelangelo Buonarroti.

Ben Jonson.

Candle Moment

Oak Tree Painted in 1642

Janus 2021