That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for July 25, 2018

Man with eviction notice from castle.

“So you say that this is the deed to that castle, annnd how much are you asking?”

The first Encyclopedia Brittanica salesman, when it was only one page.

Well, how did you know that I’m the one they call Eric the Red?

One heavy metal band to support… please give what you can and, no, I don’t want a horse in exchange for my kingdom.

Darn! When Dad sees this note from the Principal, I know he’ll make me get a haircut. But he might let me keep my beard…

The tricky part about today’s painting is that it’s not the whole thing; it’s a detail from Durer’s “Feast of the Rosary.” There’s a good article about it at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feast_of_the_Rosary. I suspect Steve Melcher found the image at http://www.culturekiosque.com/art/travel/feast_of_the_rose_garlands.html because that’s where this exact detail exists, framed exactly this way. The colors match very well too. Which is a partial answer to a question that interests me: what sources does Melcher use? By the way, that second URL also has good information about this work. The figure is thought to be a self-portrait of Durer. I noticed that the self-portrait is indeed mistier, lighter and less well-defined then all the other people in the painting, which might be Durer’s clever way of placing himself in the image non-realistically.

Note to mom, “Next time, less bleach.”

Thank goodness…

For a second I thought I was going blind.

I used to think optimistically about this artist but now I am mistioptically about his talents.

" My name is Albrecht. If I’m lost, please return me to Mr. & Mrs. A. Dürer, 1506 Misty Drive, Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire. "

Shoulda used the SPF 50.

Feast of the Rose Garlands: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_Feast_of_Rose_Garlands_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 

(best viewed using Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to info about the full painting. It has this self-portrait the artist included (standing under a tree at the right).

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/durer_albrecht.html 

http://www.sai.msu.su/cjackson/durer/durer_bio.htm 

https://www.wikiart.org/en/albrecht-durer 

https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/d/durer/biograph.html 

http://www.durerart.com/ 

http://www.all-art.org/durer/durer1-1.html 

all have info about this artist (the last is the start of currently 78 webpages devoted to him), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the first URL. So far, 5 works by him have been used here. 

http://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2013/05/13?comments=visible 

has the prior, which due to length restrictions in the January, 2017, GoComics “upgrade”, no longer has my comment, losing its 25 hyperlinks and embedded image in the process. &?@#!#%&!

Again, a slightly larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2003 (July 24, 2018) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

Dear John, I’m leaving you. I just can’t tell who you are anymore.

He intends to have some stern words with the man who sold him these paints.

Thank you for auditioning for the part of the Cowardly Lion. We are going in another direction.

The “Dress Code” says No fascinators …..what a pity

Franz the ghost, anting to get back to haunting his old home, but is worried would see him.

“So, you’re trying out for ‘Jesus Christ: Superstar’ too?”

Yeah for the role of Mary

Getty Lee evicted from his summer home in Luxembourg for not paying his estate taxes.