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This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
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The world's newest most expensive painting
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This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
This week, behold Hans Holbein the Younger’s Darmstadt Madonna.
This week, behold Pablo Picasso’s Le Rêve (The Dream).
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This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
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I'mma let you finish, but. . .
Tom Hanks struggled with this one
Picasso was accused of stealing it, and Napoleon hung it in his bedroom
This is how you treat a side chick. Give her a Leonardo
Part two of two!
This story is juicy
Part one of two!
Unfinished as usual
“Madonna and the Bobble Head”
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That's one heavy helmet Oof
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Freud’s favorite painting
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Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
BFF's til the end
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Witch’s brew
Witch orgy prep
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Avada Kedavra
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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Musée du Louvre
Mona Lisa #1: “The Wonder Lisa”
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre
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She does sound like a pretty nice person and a great mom so there is that…..
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Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
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Check out this beaut! Here is the clearest photo we’ve ever had of Pluto, taken by...
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Ostagram is a Russian website that combines two images using neural networks, a...
Where my Doges at?
Depression is a nasty condition. Most of the time it leaves you feeling...
Singin’ in a ring
The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
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Who says Republicans don’t support the arts? In recent years, the conservative...
Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
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The Monuments Men were charged with saving as many European cultural treasures as...
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Men react to the friendzone
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Kanye West received an honorary doctorate degree from the School of the Art...
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X” Marks the Spot
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
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Dear Ronda Rousey,We heard about your recent loss to Holly Holm, dubbed as “the...
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[Venice. Mrs. Peggy Guggenheim in her palace on the Grand Canal, 1950 by David...
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So here we are with the second part of our story, Catching Fire. When we left...
