name the artist

“Well, I went home with the waitress
The way I always do
How was I to know
She was with the Russians, too”

“novez nerraw si taht, edud”

“Painter, painted "Birth of Venus" aka "Venus on the Half Shell"”

“boticelli, comissioned by the medicis. i have a BFA, so that may be cheating.”

“Botticelli? When did he say that?”

“what baroque artist killed a man over a foul call in a tennis game?”

“...or is rumored to have?”

“Caravaggio”

“Poets???

I saw these victims of continued death
For lived they never - were naked all, and loud
Around them closed a never-ceasing cloud
Of hornets and great wasps, that buzzed and clung,
Weak pain for weaklings meet, - and where they stung,
Blood from their faces streamed, with sobbing breath,
And all the ground beneath with tears and blood
Was drenched, and crawling in that loathsome mud
There were great worms that drank it”

“i don't know much poetry, but i'd recognize some dante, eh?

what was caravaggio's first name?”

“Flyguy6x --

Warren Zevon . . .of course

(I knew the Bottecelli too (saw it hanging at the Uffizzi in Florence)but someone beat me to the punch.

Aren' I just too smart today!”

“ok, i understand the confusion...

read "novez nerraw si taht, edud" backwards!”

“!kcus uoy ,daR mnaD”

“Hey!! I got it on a second read, before I saw your post!”

“Damn . . . aren't I dumb today!”

“Excitable Boy is a funny funny song.

Roland the Headless Thomson gunner.

The man is sick sick sick”

“Who portrayed Boo Radley in "To Kill a Mockingbird" in the film version which starred Gregory Peck???”

“robert duvall”

“Too easy, time to turn up the heat

Who?
I wanna thank you for the love we made Louisiana is a sweet parade
Me oh my I don't know what to do
But love you
I wanna thank you for the love you shine
Louisiana is a love of mine
Me oh my I don't know what to do
But love you
Oh mardi gras!”

“it's not milli vanilli.

;-)”

“Michelangelo”

“and what was michelangelo's last name?”

“Bonarotti Rosannadana”

“And what was Botticelli's last name? Hows about his first name while we are at it!”

“Rumplestiltskin”

“What was Rosannadana's first name?”

“Biff Botticelli”

“sando filipepe”

“sorry, sandro.”

“Holy crap, Rad got a degree in burger flipping. You never cease to amaze me Radagast. Most hearty kudos to you!

I have a basic appreciation for the fine arts, but don't have the background to answer these questions. i basically like to wander the museum gallaries and look.”

“Oh, an Art Appreciation minor!”

“"galleries"

and i do not, have not, nor will i ever, flip a burger.”

“I like burgers.”

“I'm jokin' bud.

Ok, here's the best I can do. Who painted Lucretia, and what's the story?”

“You need to flip the burgers to cook them evenly. Ask SnackBoy. I do mine about five minutes on each side.”

“OK, Who said this;

Georgie Porgie
puddin & pie
jerked off in his girlfriends eye
when her eye was dry and shut
Georgie fuct that one eyed slut”

“Don't know about Georgie Porgie but...

The Rape of Lucretia is a story from ancient Rome: while her husband is away, the virtuous Lucretia is raped by Sextus, the son of the King Tarqunius the Proud.

In order to save her honor Lucretia takes her own life, but not before revealing the reason of the suicide in a letter to her father and husband. On her tomb her family gave an oath to avenge.

As a result a rebellion took place against the tyrant Tarquinius. The revolt led to the fall of the king's power of Rome and foundation of the Roman Republic.

Lucretia has been painted by a couple of people, most notably Botticelli & Rembrant. :o)”

“The dice-man”

“DING!!! We have a winner!!!”

“Who wrote this?

"I heed not that my earthly lot
Hath - little of Earth in it -
That years of love have been forgot
In the hatred of a minute: -
I mourn not that the desolate
Are happier, sweet, than I,
But that you sorrow for my fate
Who am a passer-by.”

“Dr Seuss'”

“LOL Dude! Good try... :-P”

“My bad. I thought that was a passage from Horton Hears a Who.”

“S'okay, really! :o) I'll give you a hint. The author's initials are EAP....”

“Eddy Alex Poeman?”

“Didn't he also wright one called the Crow?..... or something like that?”

“WAIT!
I goofed. His last name was POkemon....I think.”

“LOL! Yeah it's Edgar Allen Poe... do you kow how he got his middle name?
The poem you're thinking of is called "The Raven"

"...the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain
Thrilled me-filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;
So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating
"Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door-
Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door;-
This it is and nothing more"
-from The Raven”

“To know someone
here or there
With whom you can feel there is understanding
In spite of distances or thoughts unexpressed,
That can make of thid earth
A garden.

?”

“That should've been 'know'. D'Oh! %-)”