Retro Renaissance Advocate Gifts

'Do you know what I miss? - Chalk talks!'

You're my Mona Lisa.

Madonna of the Pukes.

'A portcullis is SO yesterday!'

"Remember when it was 'The Dog and Duck'?"

"We made all the wheels out of old coffee tables and chandeliers."

'Charlotte's Website' ('The children's book classic rewritten for the electronic era!')

'They look more up to date than the ones in your tool-box.'

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

"I want to be a more interesting person. Think maybe watching old black and white movies would do it?"

"Of course, on casual Fridays I'm the fifties Elvis."

"We hardly ever intercept hard copy notes anymore, Stanley."

Somewhere in America... the day after "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" came to an end.

Raphael

"Midtown Vinyl. Vintage albums + EPs. Midtown Ink. Vintage books + newspapers."

Ralph Rackstraw HMS Pinafore

Back in my day, we were drawn with ink on paper, not on some fancy digital pad, but at least we knew we existed.

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

Da Vinci painting a grumpy version of Mona Lisa.

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!'

'A 50's vintage automobile...a billiards room. YOu, my firend, have got it all.'

"You love anything tacky, don't you?"

"Sklar, Liebowitz, Rubin and Kaminsky... Attorneys a go-go."

'If we were in the Renaissance, we'd be painting nativity scenes right now.'

"I don't know what happened, your holiness! I painted the ENTIRE CEILING!"

'Mary, I believe in historic preservation, too, but ... '

Leonardo Da Vinci's Cat

"Za Za Bling Bling goes man hunting."

'Actually, it's good, old fashioned, chicken soup.'

Disco Owls

"Unfortunately, father never quite got over being asked to reform the band for Live Aid in the '80s."

"Galileo soon modified his gravity experiments" "Ready to catch it?"

"Yo, how's it swinging?"

Innovate or die.

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