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This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
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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
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This story is juicy
Part one of two!
Unfinished as usual
“Madonna and the Bobble Head”
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Rebirth, Re-use, Recycle
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Turn that frown upside down
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Freud’s favorite painting
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BFF's til the end
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Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
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Made in a cabin
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Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Musée du Louvre
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Mona Lisa #1: “The Wonder Lisa”
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre
“Help me, Obi-Wan Davinci. You’re my only hope.”
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Wearing a vest of many colors
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Careful, might make you howl!
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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci
Before there was OkCupid, there was The Cupid Seller by Joseph-Marie...
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
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Here KitchenAid uses a Gustav Klimt inspired lady to show how food is art.
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Where my Doges at?
Just another naked lady
Witness her
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The Carters’ newest music video is a work of art. R&B/hip-hop...
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In January 2014, my husband and I traveled to Italy, stopping in Rome, Florence,...
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We love getting new contributors and we’d like to introduce you to one of them:...
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Whether your mom is dazzled by the Impressionists or, like mine, is...
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Emasculates the German government
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While we at Sartle fancy ourselves pioneers of art history humor, we know that for...
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It’sIn a world where I am Brad Pitt and my friends are George Clooney at the...
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Twenty years ago on December 19, 1997, Titanic splashed onto the big...
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