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Professor of art history at Portland State University. Author of Artemisia Gentileschi: The Language of Painting (Yale University Press) and some other stuff. 2 parts Weltschmerz, 1 part vermouth.
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Not exactly the same thing, but this Leonardo da Vinci cover is pretty impressive
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I'm going to assume the "tourist" was a performance artist making your exact point (in the spirit of the guy who ate Maurizio Cattelan's banana taped to the wall)
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Nice idea but I don’t think he’s going to share
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Here's some music by Gaspar Sanz www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMap...
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Yes, that's what Mary Garrard has argued
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On the whole I find Masaniello a much more intriguing character
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They were Italian, but the painting is in Denmark
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I'm not even sure if there are any other signed works
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Maybe that's why she's the patron of music!
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Unfortunately this government is that weird-smelling guy you had to be lab partners with who everyone knows is one rejection away from being a school shooter
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'El General Franco en los Infiernos' - poem by Pablo Neruda, published in FUTURO, July 1938. No.29. Cover illustration Arturo Souto. Universidad Obrera de Mexico, México. D.F.
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Hitler in Hell. [George Grosz, Cain, or Hitler in Hell, 1944, oil on canvas, 99 x 124.5 cm (Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin)]
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Excellent branding
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I'm afraid I don't know. Though the woman was rumored to be Madame Adélaide, daughter of Louis XV
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Recording here fwiw www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvlW...
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🫡
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True. Are you referring to the Web Gallery of Art alt-text?
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tamayto, tomahto
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It really does!