That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for April 26, 2012

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    BE THIS GUY  over 12 years ago

    Wow, I’ve got nothing.

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    pcolli  over 12 years ago

    Such a lustrous beard. Could almost be Marge Simpson, upside down.

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    el8  over 12 years ago

    look like peanut butter cups to me

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    watmiwori  over 12 years ago

    Just hope he isn’t touching the exquisite manuscript with hissticky fingers!

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    zero  over 12 years ago

    Yeah, still glad I didn’t be a monk.

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    vwdualnomand  over 12 years ago

    they still make mallomars?

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    PICTO  over 12 years ago

    Monk, eating Mallomars or monk-eating Mallomars?

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    Coyoty Premium Member over 12 years ago

    Looks like skull candy.The artist really seems to like painting Jerome. Looking up his paintings, I see several different versions of this painting.

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    V-Beast  over 12 years ago

    “The itsy bitsy spider walked round the dried out skull”

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    psychlady  over 12 years ago

    Strange…

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    SwimsWithSharks  over 12 years ago

    Nice man cave. Is there another skull in your hoodie or is it just glad to see me?

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    finale  over 12 years ago

    Looks more like Jerome just realized those mushrooms in yesterday’s gruel might have seen better days.

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    mabrndt Premium Member over 12 years ago

    Click-to-enlarge image available from here. Different coloration enlargement available from here, along with a short discussion of the painting.Here’s a second painting, and a third painting by this artist of Saint Jerome (wanted to use something other than his Wikipedia webpage or Catholic bio that I’ve used before) in basically the same scene (there’s a hat on the wall in the other two).Wikipedia has all three, plus a couple more (one similar, the other not so much), and a couple detail images here.This painting is discussed in more detail here along with a (perhaps better quality) different coloration click-to-enlarge image.Oops, at least that’s what I thought from the image. But the location is where the second painting is on loan to, and the hat, mentioned in the painting description, is missing. Apart from the hat, it’ll probably pass for a discussion of this painting as well — I’m not going to find a better one.Current-location’s webpage. Different coloration detail image (actually from third painting, but the same pages as this painting). Other works in the Wikipedia collection.So far, only work by this artist to appear in Mr. Melcher’s blog.

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    magicwalnut  over 12 years ago

    Deformed fingers ? Pinky on the right hand is longer than index finger on the left.

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    King_Shark  over 12 years ago

    Looks like someone’s got the back of his cowl on a hook.

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    Woody157  over 12 years ago

    @mabrandtRegarding your comment yesterday about nobody commenting about ‘filet mignon’, must have been only a bunch of vegans on line.

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    Woody157  over 12 years ago

    He wants his R. C. Cola and Moon Pie put right here, thank you very much!

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    blackdawne  over 12 years ago

    The First Hair Club For Men President

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    Call me Ishmael  over 12 years ago

    A Saint with a prop in his cowlMight cause congregations to howlBut he’s better by farWith a stale MallomarThan a baigneuse who’s lost her towel…

    S’not Mallomars. That’s a broken Mason Mint.

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    vldazzle  over 12 years ago

    Have no idea about “Mallomar” but references from mabrndt good as always. I only visited 2 (so busy lately on the Cornell hawk site) but enjoyed the ones where I went and would have gone to that new ref on Frida if I had time (and there was one on Kincaid- can’t believe anyone takes his work seriously!!) anyway, thanks again Mabrndt. I’ll be here more once the cute little hawks have fledged but the cameras are so good in HD and I’m enjoying the comment board as Beatrice_aviary.

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    waltermintz  about 3 years ago

    How do you stay so slender?

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