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When you stroll through an art museum viewing the masterpieces of previous time periods, what’s going through your mind? Do you marvel at how impressive the paintings were from times before photographs and the internet were available? Or do you imagine what clever captions you could paste onto the paintings to turn them into modern day memes?

If you’re a connoisseur of memes who’s also interested in taking a scroll through a virtual art gallery, we’ve got the perfect list for you down below. We took a trip to the “Ancient Memez” Instagram page to gather our favorite paintings from the past that have been given clever contemporary captions, so enjoy reading through and be sure to upvote the pics that you find most relatable!

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Pollywog
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3 years ago

Thi-!!

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    David
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    3 years ago

    This one is still one of my favorites.

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    Issy Ahrens
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    3 years ago

    #relatable- I mean what? did you guys just hear anything, because I certainly didn’t.

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    TheAmericanAmerican
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    3 years ago

    Priorities! Princess Fluffybottom always comes first!

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    Zedrapazia
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    3 years ago

    I like the ragged, tired Jesus on the bottom left: "He's still staring at me after 6 hours, doesn't he ...?"

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    TheOneAndOnlyMarina
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    3 years ago

    My sleep paralysis demon in a nutshell

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    Bear Hall
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    3 years ago

    Get me Michelangelo and I'll have my whole body tattooed. Otherwise get lost.

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    Will Cable
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    3 years ago

    A prism sentence for being gay.....ok it's a bad pun on this spectrum.

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    Mark
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    3 years ago

    krampus, my boy!

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    Phoebe Bean
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    .... and thinking I´m coool

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    PlatinumThe8-BitCat
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    3 years ago

    Is that a table napkin on her head?

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    Phoebe Bean
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    3 years ago

    even my dog gives me that look

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    Roger9er
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    3 years ago

    "But he has a booger!"

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    Julian Slate
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    This is so accurate

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    GoGoPDX
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    3 years ago (edited)

    Ah yes. In saving the spider you prove your worthiness as a friend to the apex predators of the forrest and they gather to welcome you to their powerful ranks. You have the mighty bear, the lethal owl, prowling wolves, a clever yet deadly fox, a destructivly dangerous boar, and .....2 fluffy bunnies!

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    vogonpoet
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    3 years ago

    My brother, bless his beardy 6 foot self, used to scream that someone (usually me) hit him. I never did. However, I did attempt to beat up his bullies and protect him with all my might.

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    GoGoPDX
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Yet it was fleas that were the real culprit. Yes, mice and rats carried it, along with cats, dogs, and other animals. But it was the fleas that transmitted it from those animals to humans.

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    Odmir Sororkesen
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore.

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    Mavis
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Everyone living in the moment.....except for that one guy without a head.

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    PlatinumThe8-BitCat
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Judgmental horse

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    Julian Slate
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Reading this meme in its entirety really put me in a weird headspace

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    Annik Perrot
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Yes, but do they listen?

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    Phoebe Bean
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    "But moooommmm!"

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    Corvus
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    The guy kinda looks like Freddy Mercury, doesn't he?

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    The Original Bruno
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Still way less creepy than "Cats."

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    Bridgitte Booth
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    And I thought mine was eclectic! 😀

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    Phoebe Bean
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Both.

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    JJ Kim
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    3 years ago

    why look like putin

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    Pollywog
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    3 years ago

    So many people owe me damns!!!!

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    Auntriarch
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    😭

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    ADDee
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Satan check in reception desk.

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    Phoebe Bean
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    I liked the Lord of the Rings movie adaptation (and read the book as well).

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    Undercover
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Perfect introvert fashion! 😁👍

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    Thomas Grant
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    3 years ago

    Last Tuesday. Baba Yaga. She makes a pretty good Beef Stroganoff.

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    Julian Slate
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Well, time to book my trip to Hell UwU

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    Noa S
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    “Okra Smugglers” by contemporary Polish/American artist Henryk Fantazos

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    Agfox
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    3 years ago

    Sleep Demon work is unionised, time to take that paid leave

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    Maggie
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Yum, toast.

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    Phoebe Bean
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    So, it well could be any age...

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    Petra Schaap
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    old times Truman Show

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    Jrdiver
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    3 years ago

    Just be glad it's the front half... Some other poor sucker got stuck with the back half.

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    PlatinumThe8-BitCat
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    3 years ago (edited)

    That’s what I think about compliments

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    taarna23
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    3 years ago

    I actually rather like the one the woman has, there.

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    Robert Millar
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    3 years ago

    "I wandered lonely as a cloud..." She thinks: I'm not surprised.

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    Grain of salt included
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    When you take a nap and it's day, wake up and it's dark like" Whose the president?.."

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    Julian Slate
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    3 years ago

    Kinda makes me wonder what the drugs of those days were like

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    PlatinumThe8-BitCat
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    3 years ago

    Same… 😔

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    Phoebe Bean
    Community Member
    3 years ago

    Not different from my future 80s (hope I make it to that age!)

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