That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for August 16, 2018

Columbus covered up the part about how he conned the King & Queen of Spain when the painter entered the room.

CC thinking: “Maybe I made a slight miscalculation on the size of the Earth, naaah.”

“I thought I was Martin Luther! It must be the hat.”

Mrs Columbus: Christopher Columbus, how many times have told you not to wear the throw pillows.

Even with a descriptive chart, Chris still can’t quite master the secret handshake.

Is it hot in here, or…(why am I wearing my hat?)

To the left, from his perspective.

Hangs out at Starbucks for the free WiFi.

Hands across the water

Hands across the sky

Admiral Halsey notified me

He had to have a berth or he couldn’t get to sea

I had another look and I had a cup of tea and butter pie

Are you sure the artist’s Southern Netherlandish, and not Northern Belgiumish?

All you need to know is on the tapestry hanging behind him. The subjects name, the artists name, the date – it’s all right there in mid Renaissance Latin. Turns out the man is a physician, not an explorer at all.

There’s a decent page in English about this painting at https://www.wga.hu/html_m/o/orley/zelle.html. If your French is up to it, try https://www.wga.hu/html_m/o/orley/zelle.html. And if your Dutch can hack it, try https://www.wga.hu/html_m/o/orley/zelle.html. There’s always Google Translate to help you out.

" I’m sorry sir, but you don’t have a reservation. "

Hey, its pencil dick again.

Portrait of Georg Zelle: 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bernaerd_van_Orley_003.jpg 

(best viewed by Google Chrome which can automatically translate most pages as necessary) has info and links that point to info about this roughly A3 paper size, oil on panel painting.

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

https://www.encyclopedia.com/reference/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/orley-bernard-van 

http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100254511 

https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/o/orley/biograph.html 

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11320a.htm 

https://books.google.com/books?id=fj19CAAAQBAJ&pg=PA451#v=onepage&q&f=false 

https://theodora.com/encyclopedia/o/bernard_van_orley.html 

all have info about this artist (the 1st and 2nd paragraphs of the last seem to be corrupted, following “born on 1”; maybe that’ll be fixed soon), perhaps in addition to what’s pointed to by the first URL. This is the first work by him used here.

Again, a larger strip image is shown by clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #2019 (August 15, 2018) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment.

“What is that woman doing under the table? Oh! Carry on.”

He started the concept of taking Columbus Day off.

Christ thinking how to write memo regarding rape of big breasted native.

“Hey Chris, still working hard on that ‘theory?’ Hahaha….seriously dude, I just need the bathroom key.”