Renaissance Enthusiast Gifts

Renaissance mandolinist/lutist plugged into many amplifiers.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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!'

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

"It's inflation, Miss Borgia - too much money chasing too few poisons."

"It's nice, but I never smile like that. I smile like this."

The Sistine Chapel-circa 1512

'Being a royal court jester hasn't just been all glitz and glamor you know. Oh sure, there's been a lot of laughter on the outside but tehre's been a lot of crying,dysentry,cholera,gout and bubonic plague on the inside.'

"Don't give me this stupid 'Renaissance' stuff! - The Middle Ages were good enough for my father and they're good enough for me!"

Roberto paused to admire his work. Never before had he plastered a ceiling so beautifully. Minutes later, a young punk named Michelangelo would ruin everything.

Desiderius Erasmus

"We're interviewing one other guy and we'll let you know..."

"Wow, Leonardo! Science, art, inventions. . . Can't you focus?!?"

Plan B

'Galileo, you'll have to simplify the experiment.'

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

Oh no, Leonardo has brought his holiday snaps again!

Mona Lisa gesturing at Leonardo Da Vinci when his back is turned.

Leonardo Da Vinci's Cat

'Man, I've tried everything, this just isn't working'

Fun fact from history: Michelangelo painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel while lying on his back.

Albrecht Dürer

'Ah master Physician I'm feeling a little ruff!'

Raphael

Michel de Montaigne

Desiderius Erasmus

The Vitruvian Cockroach

Missing you.

Shakespeare downloading thoughts.

"I wish you were as good in combat as you are at winning prizes at the Renaissance Faire."

'Why couldn't you just have dandruff like everyone else?'

'Pass my Mallet.'

Michel de Montaigne

Shakespearean birthday

Francesca Caccini