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This week we have The Temptation of Saint Anthony by Salvador Dali, housed in the...
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Flaming June by Frederic Leighton at the Ponce Museum of Art
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Harlequin Head by Pablo Picasso
A fun series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly crude...
A Grotesque Old Woman by Quentin Matsys
Nude Woman in a Red Armchair by Pablo Picasso
Reclining Nude by Suzanne Valadon
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Two Friends by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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Inn with Drunken Peasants (Boerendrinkpartij) by Adriaen Brouwer
A fun new series where Lauren shows just how awful she is by combining the mostly...
Portrait of Captain Thomas Lee by Marcus Gheeraerts II at the Tate Britain
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The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of...
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