Absolutely anything can be meme'd, including 17th century Byzantine paintings and dramatic Baroque portraits. Your art history teacher might disagree, but we think some of these old gems were meant to be meme'd. We might go so far as to say that becoming a meme was the true calling for some of these paintings and now, after centuries, the true fate of art is finally being realized. Okay maybe we're getting a bit carried away, but why don't you take a look at these hilarious art memes and decide for yourself.
medieval memes
Throughout the history of civilization, art has been an unparalleled tool for understanding the zeitgeist of a given era. Call us crazy, but we like to think that memes are a lot like classical paintings if you think about them as cultural documents of the time. A lot of art from the past have even been reappropriated into memes. The scenes captured in Medieval and Neoclassical paintings often depict expressive and dramatic characters that one would be crazy not to try and meme today. Was Caravaggio just a pioneer of the Baroque or was he actually a 17th century memelord? We've got a bunch of great classical art memes that prove art is truly timeless.
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