That is Priceless by Steve Melcher for January 29, 2024

/// Antoine sculpted big heads for display.

(They reflect his huge ego, some say.)

From his marriage he’d stray,

to his wife’s great dismay.

Antoine’s “little head” led him astray.

The drug dealers needed something big and hollow to smuggle their stash.

Federico new how to get ahead in the business.

Is that green thing just the drapes, or is it a giant lizard monster that about to bite the sculptor’s head off (wig and all)?

when he said he was a bust man, he could have seen this coming…

Nobody told Mario that you can’t just wear a wig straight from the store – you have to have it styled to fit your head.

And Mario’s style is less Howard Stern and more ’Three stooges"

He got a head of himself.

Science News: Biblio-Anthro-Paleontologist Antoine Quacksilber exhibited his latest find, that he claimed was either the fossiled head of Goliath … or proof that Nephilim giants DID in those days live in the earth.

Carving out a niche for himself.

Another random trophy from an afternoon down at the guillotine.,

This is the last time I order something from eBay……this was suppose to be Greek, but look right here…..‘Made in China’.

It’s too large? Sorry, I don’t do bust reductions.

“He’s been like this ever since he saw Alice Cooper decapitate that baby doll at a concert.”

My last girlfriend said she wished the head was bigger..

Henri intended to create the biggest, most glorious peruke ever seen at the court of Louis XIV, but first he needed a substantial bust to support his creation.

Henri’s Halloween mask wasn’t going to fool anyone.

“It was going to be ‘Judith and Holofernes,’ but Judith kept coming out weird. I don’t really know any women.”

“It’s a self-portrait. No, I don’t own a mirror. Why do you ask?”

“Don’t wear a wig for the head you have, wear a wig for the head you want to have. I read that in a book."

It is said that Antoine would later start the world’s first hair band.

“…Damm1t it, I said I want a little head…”

“Michelangelo sculpted David, before the battle. I sculpted Goliath, after the battle. What’s the problem? The story’s in the public domain now."

Salome sure let herself go to ruin and when she asked for John the Baptist’s head – this is NOT what she meant. (I won’t go into what she had really wanted from John.)

“It started out as Alexander, but I got bored with it. I figure I’ll slap together a couple of legs, say it’s ‘Ozymandias, King of Kings,’ and call it a day.”

“It was commissioned by a political candidate, and this was the smallest size he would accept.”

“When I asked for directions to the head, this wasn’t what I had in mind.”

Jacques, pictured here with his full-size latex replica of his own head that he wears just to weird people out.

“One slip of the chisel, and the statue was beheaded. But I’m sure I can find a use for it. Perhaps a paperweight”..

Is this the “Big Hair” era?

Portrait of Antoine Coysevox: 

Paste (including the quote marks) 

"Category:Chisels in art" Wikimedia 

(syntax supported by the Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, and Ecosia search engines) in the browser address bar (or search for it using one of those search engines) and choose the first Category: found and once there find the text string 1701, and click its link for info and links that point to more info about this roughly jumbo envelope size painting. 

Again, a larger strip image is shown by (Ctrl- or right-) clicking the image in Mr. Melcher’s MASTERPIECE #3260 (January 29, 2024) blog entry, accessible by the Check out the blog! box after the last comment, and using the dropdown menu (even larger, if you trim what’s after .png from the URL). I have added a comment there pointing to info about this artist I used to point to here. Only work by him used here so far.

“Portrait of Antoine Coysevox,” 1701

Tonight the part of “The Big Head” will be played by William Shatner.

“It’s Pericles, after Medusa turns him to stone and cuts his head off. Yes, everybody knows that Pericles won that fight, but this piece presupposes that he didn’t.”

“…and I made it hollow, Your Majesty, so you can totally keep your weed in there.”

First Recorded Use of the Term “Pot Head.”

The sculptor was downright defiant/

Then he altered his style/

To “obsequious smile”:/

No point in annoying a giant..

French Sculptor 1640-1720

“The guillotine broke down, so I improvised.”