  Painting captions are often dry and simplistic which motivates us to describe
a painting creatively in the style of Shakespearean prose. This is a difficult
problem, since there does not exist a large supervised dataset from paintings
to Shakespearean prose. Our solution is to use an intermediate English poem
description of the painting and then apply language style transfer which
results in Shakespearean prose describing the painting. We rate our results by
human evaluation on a Likert scale, and evaluate the quality of language style
transfer using BLEU score as a function of prose length. We demonstrate the
applicability and limitations of our approach by generating Shakespearean prose
for famous paintings. We make our models and code publicly available.
