Vintage Mortons!

My friend Katie recently found out about an old pastime of mine, which was to cull pictures of obnoxious and precocious smart-aleck kids from the Sears catalog and various circulars that came in the mail.

The fact is, by the time I was in tenth grade, I had a pretty impressive collection of unctuous youngsters, smirking and grandstanding in smarmy poses and sporty coordinates. I called the maggoty kids "mortons," and kept the carefully cut-out images in a tacky little photo album that I could carry in my backpack and access at a moment's notice. I still have it somewhere. When I find the thing, I will post it as a glorious tribute to cocky children and cheap clothes throughout the ages.

But speaking of cocky children throughout the ages, that brings me to my point: Turns out, Mortons are forever.

LOOK WHAT KATIE HAS FOUND:

The Kids Aren’t Alright

Tumblr (3.0; @uglyrenaissancebabies)
http://uglyrenaissancebabies.tumblr.com/

Virgin & Child with Bunch of Grapes, Lucas Cranach c. 1510

(submitted by wills)

Fra Filippo Lippi, Madonna and Child Enthroned (detail)

Venus and Cupid c. 1540 by Lucas Cranach, the Elder

Madonna and Child (Salting Madonna) Antonello da Messina c.1460

Simon Couet, Saint Cecilia

OH FUCK, SKY BABIES.

Madonna and Child, Domenico Veneziano

Rosso Fiorentino. Madonna with Child and Putti. 1522.

Gerard David, The Rest on the Flight Into Egypt

Titian, The Worship of Venus

Le Christ Benissant les Enfants

Aelbert Bouts, Madonna and Child

(submitted by Sanchia de Souza)

Meister des Bartholomäus-Altars, Madonna with the Nut. 1485-1490

(submitted by Rick Tulka)

Madonna and Child by Andrea Previtali, c.1515 or, ” Madonna of the Costanzas”

(submitted by Emmy Waz)

Mughal court Miniature of Madonna and Child, 1620

(submitted by Molly)

Sebastiano Del Piombo, Madonna and Child (1513)

Angelos Akotantos, Icon of the Virgin Kardiotissa

Pez Dispenser Jesus!

(submitted by changeofadress)

(alternately, Bethlehem Dangerous)