EMOJI OLD MASTERS
Calibrating frog-green to a Flemish meadow.
Glyphs are heavy. Stay. Laugh. It’s working.
Briefing a cheese on chiaroscuro. It’s taking notes.
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo · 1655
Jusepe de Ribera · 1642
Francisco de Zurbarán · c. 1635
William Holman Hunt · 1851
Dante Gabriel Rossetti · 1874
Frederic Leighton · 1895