What can make a collection of finest artworks from every epoch of human history much better and much worse at the same time? Turning every single one of these artworks into a meme, of course. Gather round, art lovers, museum enjoyers and classics appreciators of all ages, for we have a collection of art-based memes from a place where art gets collected, processed, and turned into something funny every day, the number one destination of culturally-minded meme afficionados, the famed /r/trippingthroughtime subreddit.

Touching up the classics with funny captions and labels, these memes subvert the situations that concerned and intrigued people's minds centuries and turn them into something slightly more relatable to us living in the 21st century. We sincerely hope the ancestors are looking and laughing with us.