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Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Mannerism is the -ism that followed the sophisticated High Renaissance and...
Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
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Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...
Made in a cabin
Wearing a vest of many colors
Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
Just another naked lady
Witness her
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Claude Monet, The Japanese Footbridge, 1899, National Gallery of Art, Washington D....
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This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.
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This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
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Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
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