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Art aficionados like to pretend that there's a very specific and complex science behind interpreting paintings. But as these humorous tweets reveal, the hidden messages are often pretty obvious, not to mention pretty funny!
These modern interpretations of centuries-old paintings come courtesy of Medieval Reactions, a wryly funny Twitter account that's making people smile with its contemporary take on traditional artwork. And as you can see, it appears that the observations and dilemmas faced by our ancestors aren't that much different to those of today! Don't forget to vote for your favorite!
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Over Opinionated 9 years ago
I just noticed that when I read ur comment lmao
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Sara Da Cunha Pimentel 9 years ago
This is by Omar Rayyan! https://www.facebook.com/orayyan/?fref=ts
Anne Leutsch 9 years ago
Can I keep him Mom? Please? Pretty Please? With sugar on top? I will walk him every day I promise!! Please! Please! PLEASE????
Tader Smith 9 years ago
Sorry this is not a medieval painting. Unless I entered a time vortex to order this exact print from the artist himself. Lol. Omar Rayyan, check out his works. I have several and love them all.
Kristine Radtke 9 years ago
Lol'd on that one. .the flower tops it! Who knew there was such comedic relief way back then
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Diane Smith 9 years ago
What did Jesus say to his deciples at the last supper? "You better sit on this side of the table or you won't be in the picture"
Darlene Trower 9 years ago
Jesus said if you want to get in the picture you need to get on this side of the table.
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Jose Baeyens 8 years ago
Thought it was : When you're dead but government decided you have to work until you're 70....
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Whitney Shields 9 years ago
I knew that picture of me would show up somewhere on the Internet ????
Jane Slavin 8 years ago
That this happens to me on a nearly daily basis does not reduce the trauma!
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Deb Chrisman 9 years ago
Oh Jesus, please tel us one more time how that recipe goes again for changing water into wine?!
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Branislava Simić 8 years ago
BTW as someone coming from non EU country, we are praying not to enter enter because all our neighbours that did were screwed a big time...
Soon Tekh 9 years ago
Either you have a true democracy or you don't. F****D WESTERNERS!! You either allow everyone to vote no matter whether they are a young adult, elder, male or female, black, white, or you don't have a real democracy and thus don't have the right to force democracy on other countries.
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Yvonne Bernal 9 years ago
I've heard of the head of a man, body of a goat; but this head of a man, balls of a bull is a totally new concept!
Naima Ivansdóttir 9 years ago
this is an illustration taken from a medicine essay of the middle age, namely the canon medicinae, and it shows a doctor (on the left in the hat) diagnosing a case of elephantiasis.
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Karen Colton 9 years ago
I am just too much of a prude to post this one I do think it is funny a man would never do this
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Elin Aasen 9 years ago
Me too! And I'm ALWAYS unprepared! Whyyyyyy? Just cruel.
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Deb Chrisman 9 years ago
We all ask the same question in our head when we see a cat doing this, "REALLY!!" Do you have to do that on my pillow!?!
Louise Molnar 9 years ago
I believe this is a small part of a larger page decoration in a big medieval manuscript, the monk-scribes often included things like this to relieve their boredom. So I've read somehwere anyway
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Daniel Moraru 9 years ago
"X" in roman numbers means 10. So he sold Jesus for 30 gold coins.
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Tatiana Dem 9 years ago
When u wake up from a coma and everyone says that you have been a vegetable for the past 5 years!
Mihaela-cristina Dumitrascu 9 years ago
but she doesn't mention cannibalism...just men for supper, vegans or not :) ...always garnished with raw fruits and vegetables.
Noor Pekala 9 years ago
Oooh, that would be a vegan's favorite guy to eat.
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Carla McVittie 9 years ago
I wonder what a whole body shot would look like especially around the groin area
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Gabriela Correa Purificação 9 years ago
When someone tries to hurt your feelings but you don't have any
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Luis Milian 9 years ago
Barber: what's it going to be Me: you know that Santa Maria Barber: say no more
Kathy McDace 9 years ago
Shouldn't a carrot hang off that feather to make it go. No, maybe beans to make wind.
Arson Rose 9 years ago
When its crazy hair day at school and your mom thinks shes going to win an award for your hair
Lina Hård Af Segerstad 9 years ago
I know, let's make the sails really sturdy with some sausages!!
Jess Rivera 9 years ago
barber: what would you like today me: i want to honor Christopher's trip to india barber: say no more.....
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Kirsa Rasmussen 9 years ago
well maybe he didn't have one, after all he didn't have balls enough to say no :-D
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Deb Chrisman 9 years ago
Man I'm never gonna pass this Chariot driving class, oh c**p I lost my penis again!
Delaina Turnage 9 years ago
Tequila made his clothes fall off...and apparently his penis as well...
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Arson Rose 9 years ago
When you are a first time dad and your trying to have fun and safetly watch little johnny
Deb Chrisman 9 years ago
Ok so Leonardo, in theory If I apply X amount of thrust behind the shaft, based of course on the given weight of this child, and at a trajectory of 90 degrees based on the distance from this tower to that one over there, then little Jonathan here should land safely on that bed of straw, RIGHT?
Noor Pekala 9 years ago
Wayer? Does a spear weigh dishes too or wash 'em?
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Over Opinionated 9 years ago
Yeah but it's not gross to him if you suck it after it's inside you if my juice isn't supposed to be gross to us why should his be gross to him
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Carin Kock 9 years ago
this baby has a bizarrely short right arm and bizarrely long left arm - in addition to all the other bizarrenesses...
Sameer Khan 9 years ago
the man behind is wondering the same too.....mother was on sum serious iron dose!!
Deb Chrisman 9 years ago
The father is like, Geewiz he doesn't look anything like me, the baby is like "Peace out!"
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Lina Hård Af Segerstad 9 years ago
So funny that none of them is actually looking at the body, each other or anything else in the painting infact hahaha!
Liz Miller 9 years ago
http://www.rembrandthuis.nl/en/rembrandt-2/rembrandt-the-artist/most-important-works/the-anatomy-lesson-of-dr-nicolaes-tulp/
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So as you can all observe here, Mr. Frankenstein seems to have attached a right hand arm to his left arm, let this be a lesson to you to always double check the direction of the thumbs.
Arson Rose 9 years ago
When your getting changed in front of your girlfriends and they notice your regretable tattoo
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Elin Aasen 9 years ago
First thing that comes of when I get home. And I am a B-cup. Cudos to all the bigger cups out there.
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Kirsa Rasmussen 9 years ago
mommy what are you doing to daddy? Oh, sweetheart, I am just checking to see if he has lice :-)
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Paula Pierrot 9 years ago
When you're so drunk at the party you don't realize the hot guy isn't much into girls...
Arson Rose 9 years ago
When you avoid the creepy older couple at the party wanting a threesome
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Deb Chrisman 9 years ago
Queen: quick give me your crown I'm feeling sick. King: What? Queen: Bend over I need you now, hurry! King: Babe!
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Tricia Overstreet 9 years ago
There's a gal who knows how to wear the ' Fit and Cute ' look... but its her first try
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Phoebe Stein 3 years ago
There is a 0% chance that the painter wasn't cracking up while making this.
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Amanda Panda 9 years ago
This actually made me laugh out loud ... at work...when it was quiet.
Erick Germanotta Damarez 9 years ago
I'm cracking up. These pictures are literally true as f**k. ????????
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Deb Chrisman 9 years ago
Ok ok so I just don't get it dear, you said you are taking the children away with you for two days and you want me to hang all the bloody curtains while you are gone?
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Arson Rose 9 years ago
When your boyfriend takes the last slice of pizza and your too full to fight cuz you already ate more than half so you look at him like this
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Yasu Takeuchi 4 years ago
so much vitriol in these comments. The whole point here is to look at this stuff to laugh. Y'all need to lighten up a little like
Matthew Walt 9 years ago
It's perfectly fine use of English. It's a comparison. E.g. Trying to figure out what you did wrong like the confused gentlemen in these three images.
Hans 9 years ago
What does "what you did wrong like" mean? Seriously. What does the "like" do in that sentence? I guess is is slang, but I do not get it.
Amy O'Dea 9 years ago
The like is the pictures. "What you did wrong like..." and the pics are the examples of you trying to figure out what you did wrong.
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Leah Fowler-Matthews 9 years ago
When you're a teacher and you're walking through the town centre on the weekend!
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Chelle Rowell 9 years ago
Proves my point that most people just steady talking out their a******s.
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Chelle Rowell 9 years ago
Come on, guyzzz. Maybe it was cold; or he's a grower, not a shower. Lmfao.
Stacia Lynne 9 years ago
Omg!! He need to get a refund for that s**t. It definitely won't fit!
Jose Baeyens 8 years ago
Is that all ?...?!.....Poor thing.........omg I suddenly feel so manly....
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Veronica Ho-Oliveiro 9 years ago
Here, the protection u asked me to bring for your head. Not this head Ma!
Crystal Klinger 8 years ago
YES!!! OMG, and it's a Trojan helmet!! HAHAHAHA!!!! XD
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Tatiana Dem 9 years ago
When your helmet shaped alarm clock goes off and you realize u took a day off today
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Tatiana Dem 9 years ago
When u fund the tallest speaker to dance on in the club and your favourite beat come on
criminalgirl 9 years ago
Seriously, what's wrong with using spellcheck before you add a caption? This could be really funny if you had jus.................oh what's the point.
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Susanna Vesna 9 years ago
LMAO! Makes me wonder about the hidden meanings of these paintings! May be the bastards meant it to be understood this way, but our perverted minds followed up only now!
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Tatiana Dem 9 years ago
When you are the only one who can hold that difficult yoga pose in the class
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Over Opinionated 9 years ago
And that will be the one he marries I'm sorry now
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Over Opinionated 9 years ago
Please stop asking your wasting valuable internet space you've asked about 12 paintings at least
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Eva Duskova 8 years ago
HEY that's the same guy pointing on the big balls guy! I think he fixed him and now holds the balls in his hands.
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Kathy McDace 9 years ago
The moment you realize she just caught a whiff of the chilli you ate last night
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Jose Baeyens 8 years ago
What is it with the small d***s ? The world must have been a cold cold place back then...
Zsuzsi Herdlein 8 years ago
Back then they were thinking that small penis means the man can control himself and a huge penis means the man is driven by his sexual instinct.
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Gloria Mercado-Martin 9 years ago
That's ok, honey, this happens to a lot of guys. You're just stressed out
Jose Baeyens 8 years ago
"You have a special place in my heart... forever...." Then you know you are screwed.
János Nagy 9 years ago
when she speak about her day, or life, whatever but your mind somewhere else
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Na-eema 9 years ago
When the only way to convince people you're a boy because of the dress , is to whip out your penis and pee on the ground directly in front of them
Phoebe Stein 3 years ago
Girl: mommy i have to use the potty! Mom: after we recite the abcs okay? Girl: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o q r s t u v w x y z. Mom: where is the pee? Girl: it's halfway down my leg mommy.
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Susanna Vesna 9 years ago
OMG i cant believe this was painted somewhere! Hahaha! The Great D**k tree from the mysterious land!
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Todd Barnes 9 years ago
It implies that, if she won't f**k you, she might as well be dead, or: the only woman worth saving from death is the one who will f**k you, or: that women are property, so if she belongs to someone else, she's not your responsibility to save.
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Kathy McDace 9 years ago
Better watch that. It could poke your eye out! I already cut myself on it.
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Over Opinionated 9 years ago
I don't see one I was wondering the same thing
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Kathy McDace 9 years ago
Even Ru Paul can't help this one. Or But she has a great personality!
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Sameer Khan 9 years ago
mother's quite lucky.....she has a son and grand kids at the same time......!
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Austra Ābele-Nielsen 5 years ago
Ilga! Atsūti selfiju messendžerī savai tuvākajai radiniecei, kurai ir viedtālrunis! Tagad!
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Barbara Jones 9 years ago
What's the name of this painting? reminds me of that scene from Beauty & The Beast where Belle's singing with the dandelion fluff.
Rachel Rosky 8 years ago
Christina's World by Andrew Wyeth, there is actually bit of a sad story behind it.
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Stephanie Mitchell 8 years ago
Someone found this comment too offensive?! Must have been someone healthy AF. 😂😂😂😂😂
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Tatiana Dem 9 years ago
When your bae tells you that she wants u to delete all your social media accounts
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Jose Baeyens 8 years ago
That's Cupid... not a kid you wanna mess with...😉
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Tatiana Dem 9 years ago
I made u a flowery headdres. - Be gone woman! - Real man wear small red ribbons!!!
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Noel Holub 9 years ago
I thought it was "Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme Not daisies, strawberries, letters and work!
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Tatiana Dem 9 years ago
When you ate the last candy, but your kid won't stop crying and u say, - Fine go get it!
Elle Campbell 8 years ago
I'd sure like to know the background of these weird paintings and sculptures! Bizarre!
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Over Opinionated 9 years ago
I already have two I hate this is a nightmare. Bras are already $20 a pop
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Cherie 9 years ago
When you in the middle of a parade, and realize you have to pee. Bad. The snotty kid next to you says, 'man up, you gotta hold it!' And you know the guy with the piccolo is trying not to laugh.
Over Opinionated 9 years ago
I'm feeling a personal experience for you here some. It's a very elaborate scenario you came up with
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Samantha Arnis 9 years ago
2 in the pink and 1 in the stink... Go home Jesus your pissed... I think I'm going to hell..
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Crystal Klinger 8 years ago
OMG, Guns N Roses used this picture as cover art for two of their albums! Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II.
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Noel Holub 9 years ago
Her: Give me a good reason I should date you. Him: Because I'm built like a horse?
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Anneke Oosterink 9 years ago
This is actually not artwork. This is a website where you can create your own wigs.
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Sameer Khan 9 years ago
is he gonna smell or hear....either of it....its gonna be one helluva noisy smell!
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Michielle Marine 9 years ago
Hmmmmm, I believe circumcision started as a a Jewish tradition.
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Nicole Goyette 9 years ago
told you not to miss me when you hit me, cause when I get back up, you'll sleep and then you will meet with KARMA which is my iron skillet.... LOL
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Patricia Bryan 4 years ago
Why do we get the impression that people in the Middle Ages were permanently on LSD?These paintings are GROTESQUE.
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Over Opinionated 9 years ago
My buddies cat eats from his mouth... and he allows this... he has issues
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Noel Holub 9 years ago
When you're the judge and you pretend no one can see that girl under the desk.
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MissGreenGamer 9 years ago
When John grew a moustache. Upvote if you know what I'm talking about.
Over Opinionated 9 years ago
When will beards stop being popular there bacteria traps and have been documented to have fecal particles scientific boredom I guess figured out beard poop. (your toothbrush too if it's less than 3 feet from your toilet)
ElinaTheAwesome 9 years ago
It's the person's personal style. If men want to grow a beard, they will grow their own beard. Seriously though, lay off it.
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jerrickraven 9 years ago
Please Noel Holub, stop commenting nonsense and too offending. Watch your words.
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Crystal Klinger 8 years ago
The ladies be like "Ooh, it's the Trash Dove sticker from Facebook!!"
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Noel Holub 9 years ago
I'll think I'll make number one "I am the Lord thy God" and number two "Thou shalt have no other gods before me" and number six maybe "Thous shalt not kill"
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Over Opinionated 9 years ago
Your connected to the world now it's called the internet
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Sarah Whitaker 8 years ago
I DON'T FREAKIN LIKE GREEN EGGS AND HAM P**S OFF AND LEAVE ME ALONE SAM I AM!
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Elle Campbell 8 years ago
When the worst artist in class is asked to make a poster for the school play.
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