Six hundred years before Match.com, women winked at images of men, too. Only they batted their eyelid and drooled over rich portraits. Renaissance art is full of good-looking devils.
As a writer myself, I’m a sucker for a pale and moody intellectual who mindlessly flips pages of a large book. And so, let me introduce to you Portrait of a Young Gentleman in his Studio by Lorenzo Lotto (1530). But the real cutie in this painting is hiding in the bottom, right corner.
It’s the Geico lizard. Apparently he made palace calls and offered collision quotes on chariot accidents.
Annemarie Schiavi Pedersen 
Funny!
LikeLike
Thank you!
LikeLike
Awesome!
LikeLike
So Good!
LikeLike
I wouldn’t have noticed the little geico guy had you not pointed him out. Wonderful!
LikeLike
Thank you cuz! So happy you were able to post!
LikeLike
Hi Annemarie — great posting! That lizard is like a Where’s Waldo!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Yes Kathleen! Every painting needs a Where’s Waldo lizard!
LikeLike
Hate to say it but I think the lizard is cuter than the young man.
LikeLiked by 1 person
… And such an alert little fellow
LikeLike
Clever!
LikeLiked by 1 person
Haha!!! Thank you Beth!
LikeLike