Author: Steve Melcher

Frans Pourbus the Younger, Flemish

BREAKING NEWS: Marie De’ Medici Named Lead Suspect in Florentine Bell Tower Robbery, ca.1600 to 1625

Oil on canvas

Laurits Andersen Ring, Danish

Workers Laying the Ziti For Italy’s Marinara Pipeline, 1885

Oil on canvas

Albert Guillaume, French

“Now Before I Tattoo Pete Davidson’s Initials On Here Young Lady, Are You Sure You Don’t Want To Give It a Couple More Weeks?,” Date Unknown

Oil on panel

Philip Hermogenes Calderon, British 

That Feeling When You Crush the Wordle Puzzle, 1867

Oil on canvas

Kazimierz Alchimowicz, Russian-Polish

Fun Fact: Before Bartholdi’s Last-Minute Decision To Change Models, Lady Liberty Was Going To Be Larry Liberty, 1873

Oil on canvas

José Maria Veloso Salgado, Portuguese

“Oh, This? It’s a Cold Fusion Reactor. But I Don’t Want Phil Up There To Feel Threatened, So I’ve Told Him It Makes Cupcakes,” 1917

Oil on canvas

Emmanuel Zamor, Brazilian-French

“Still Life With Prawns,” a Masterpiece of the Shrimpressionist Movement, 1916

Oil on panel

Karl Reichert, Austrian

Rex Was So Excited To Find a Copy of “The Call of the Wild,” He Totally Forgot About the No Opposable Thumbs Thing, 1915

Oil on panel