This is great stuff...

Actually, nobody knows where my dentist is. He just picked up and disappeared, and I'm beginning to think he didn't have a license.

all the more so if you are just joking...

You gotta wonder what the Mannerists were thinking...there's some weird stuff done by them. A couple of Fiorentino's Madonnas look deranged and Pontormo's Christ child makes me think "baby hippie on drugs."

I guess he really meant it when he said, "No refunds, no returns."

You had to pay in cash up front at the desk and there was a sign saying that fees couldn't be discussed with the dentist.

It was... Odd.

"Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time" by Bronzino. Lots of simple but interesting symbolism in that one!

it often is in the emotion department.

This detail is supposed to embody Envy...

Cleopatra by Michelangelo.

Thar she was!

...My internal monologue went like this: "OK, classical figure but Nubian, lots of tendrils OH MY GOD THAT'S A SNAKE ON HER BOOB." And then a light went on. Ha!

"Descent from the Cross," by van der Eyden. I thought it was a Van Eyck; otherwise I wouldn't have found it.

The tears of Mary of Cleophas are legend with art historians...

"The Sleeping Venus" by Gentilischi.

Or just an aficianado, like me!

I took two classes on art in college: one was ancient to medieval, and the other was Italian Renaissance. The rest I've filled in for myself.

I've got a ways to go...the more you know, the more you don't know...

Go for it, DUers...