Renaissance Appreciator Prints

Painting the Sistine Chapel. 1508. 1509. 1510. 1511. 1512. It looks great, Michelangelo, but there's one thing I don't understand. Why didn't you just paint it in the regular way and then mount it on the ceiling?

Michelangelo's David

'A portcullis is SO yesterday!'

Long before the GPS, traveling humans found their way around by using an Atlas.

'I'm just not as ambidextrous as I used to be.'

"You never told me your dad was so delightfully old-fashioned."

Raphael

Sistine Selfie

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

The Death Of Venus

'O mighty gods! - May you grant us food, clothing, and shelter, and the wisdom to know the difference.'

"Wait, has thou brought snacks?"

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!'

Finally! A cure for the common cold!

Curators at the Louvre Museum would regret approving the installation of a work on a wall behind the Mona Lisa.

"Which way to the Mona Lisa? We're double-parked."

"I warned you about putting funny stuff on the ball, Flanagan."

Leonardo Da Vinci's Cat

Cavemen Exhibit

Museum. It's a shame life isn't like European history with a renaissance following middle ages! (Published originally on May 26, 2013.)

"The keep saying unrestored and what a nice PATINA, Ted. A better-sounding word for old tarnished stuff would be SCRINCH or SKRITCH, don't you think, eh, Ted?"

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

"Oog creates fire and all you can come up with is that silly round thing!"

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

Hans Holbein

"Don't you sometimes worry that if they do give us our stuff back we'll lose some of the sense of grievance that's so crucial to our cultural identity?"

"Your antique gold watch didn't float."

Candle Moment

Baby car seat for a Native American.

You're my Mona Lisa.

'I don't remember ever having a good memory.'

Oak Tree Painted in 1642

Shakespeare

Michelangelo Buonarroti.

"Frankly, I don't like the way things are going."