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This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
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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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Freud’s favorite painting
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Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Musée du Louvre
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Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinci
These masked reptiles are full of sage advice. I’m sure you’ve all...
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1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens
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Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
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Once Punched a Skeleton
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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