People’s creativity in seeing the world with a sense of humour is a beautiful thing. One form that creativity takes is memes – images with superimposed texts. Antique portraits – paintings from artists of the 18th and 19th centuries – have regained popularity through their use in what I refer to as vintage memes.
Here are a few that somehow hit a funny bone in me; I hope you enjoy them, too!
Stephanie Huesler 
Amusing!!
Vintage, but still true.
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Hilarious.
I love these. Unfortunately, I’ve seen nothing like this in the U.S., possibly because we care nothing about antiquity or art and have lost our ability to think of anything requiring a full sentence. I’m sure the one about “no punctuation” goes way over most heads here.🤣
Probably the point of that meme! 🤣You’d likely see such portraits in larger art galleries or museums; everyone knows Mona Lisa for whatever reason (I find her unattractive and expressionless, esp. compared to other portraitist’s work), but other, more obscure work is lost to the public eye except through such memes, which brings a much-needed revival. 😉