That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for July 30, 2018

Renaissance dating rules:

If she holds the flag up, she’s interested; flag down, don’t bother her.

Sure she is playing coy now, but if you fall for it, you don’t want to know where she will plant that flag.

“Ok gentlemen. On your marks….”

That is one… ah… cylindrical corset.

This is where taxis got the idea—the streetwalkers of the Italian Renaissance.

The painter misunderstood when she said her interest in him was flagging.

Opera glasses, version 1.0. Back to the drawing board.

The pre TV auto cue.

“Now…where is that pesky fly?”

Well, she’s not sending out any red flags….

there doesn’t seem to be much to know about this one. “Lady in White” or “Girl with Flag”. And that’s about all anybody has on it. My guess is mom and dad wanted a nice portrait of their daughter so that they could get busy flogging her on the meat market.

Her nickname was “Sweet Surrender.”

“Portrait of an expensive dress with a small female head also present”.

Lady in White or Girl with a Fan: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tizian_072.jpg 

(best viewed using Google Chrome, which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to info about this painting. The strip image comes from the second listed under File history.

 

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

http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/artists/628/titian-tiziano-vecellio-italian-about-1487-1576/ 

http://www.artnet.com/artists/titian-tiziano-vecelli/ 

https://www.wikiart.org/en/titian 

http://www.sai.msu.su/cjackson/titian/titian_bio.htm 

http://www.titian.org/ 

https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/titian-tiziano-vecelli-14881490-1576 

https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/t/tiziano/biograph.html 

http://www.all-art.org/history230-9.html 

http://hoocher.com/Tiziano_Vecelli/Tiziano_Vecelli.htm 

all have info about this artist (images missing from the www.all-art.org URL are probably shown by the last), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the first URL. So far, 14 works by him have been used here. 

https://www.gocomics.com/that-is-priceless/2014/12/22?comments=visible 

has the prior, which sadly, though my comment text is there with the line breaks removed, its 19 hyperlinks remain inactive. &?@#!#%&!

 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2006 (July 29, 2018) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

Tilly hated that her corset squished her rack flat

to new husband, on her wedding night, dotty raised the surrender flag