Renaissance players could be beaten or jailed ... though a teacher did once catch Ms. Mann loitering with a dagger in her belt outside an auditorium (she had an entrance through the audience ...

For Montreal artist James Kerr (known on the Internet as Scorpion Dagger), however, Renaissance art is a perfect medium for making fun of the modern era. His animated GIFs, inspired by art history ...

For example, an Elizabethan dagger and rapier dredged up from the Thames are displayed next to a set of dice, a clay pipe, a money box and lost ring excavated from the site of the Globe theatre.

the Montreal-based illustrator has combined the mastery of early Renaissance paintings with the comic stylings of a Mike Judge television show. His site “Scorpion Dagger” features GIFs of beer ...