That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for August 16, 2024

Raphael didn’t get the message to grow a mustache before posing for the fab five portrait.

/// In a “meeting” which never took place,

these Five Artists each angles his face

so he can’t see the others.

Is this no band of brothers?

It’s a badly combined hack disgrace.

I thought there were only 4 Dutch Masters?

The original advertisement for men’s hair and facial haircare products, by Vidal Sassoon.

Being stuck in a lift and realizing too late there is no dog here to blame it on.

Debating the merits of spray can paint

Taken right before their 1580 world tour around north west Europe.

Is Poussin (on the left) the one taking the group selfie?

Okay, everyone look serious, no smiles

Okay boys, now put on the bigger hats and lets do the painting for the cigar adverts.

Smooth-skinned Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino felt slightly out of place with hairy guys.

Oh…I thought the fourth from left was Jesus.

Hey Spiro, get closer together doesn’t mean “that way”.

“The next one of you to call me ‘babyface’ gets decked in the schnozz. Don’t forget, they named a ninja turtle after me!”

The 1st SuperGroup

The Dutch Masters, having run out of cigars, waiting anxiously at the waterfront in Rotterdam for the new shipment.

The boys in the band……….

It behooved them to be well rounded/

For in their times true talent abounded../

Thus their too humble birth/

Obscured their true worth:/

And by creditors all five were hounded…

The guy on the far right (Rembrandt) looks a bit “off.” Either hung over or smoked the wrong kind of cigar. (Is he sleepy or in a happy place?)

The hats win 3 to 2.

Painting of the Beetles before they told Pete Best that he was out of the band.

The inspiration that triggered the carving of Mount Rushmore.

By scientific analysis, painters that wear hats become more well known.

Never fear, there’ll be a reunion tour, playing the casino circuit, at least.

Five Artists: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Johan Gustaf Sandberg" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, and Brave search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: found and once there find the text string 43107, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this 1828 (I believe) roughly jumbo envelope size painting. If your browser isn’t set up to handle .tif images, to see an enlarged image there and avoid the 23.74 MB image download to your device, click a size under the image, rather than the image itself. 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3359 (August 15, 2024) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu (even larger, if you trim what’s after .png from the URL). I have added a comment there pointing to the blog entry with my comment and reply pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. So far, 2 works by him have been used here, the July 27, 2021, strip being the prior.

the four musketeer’s and a queen.

Best known for their influential ‘Artistic Drab’ fashions. A symphony in earth tones.

The detective wants to comb for pubes before revealing the cad that’s so bad

Five guys named Moe…..

None of the band members look happy to be there. Not surprising they broke up.

Didn’t you hear? They just announced they’re getting the band back together, releasing a new album, and going on a reunion tour.

They thought that they could save money by sharing the same model. There were disagreements on afternoon siesta arrangements.