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1. Venus and Cupid by Peter Paul Rubens

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This week, behold Francis Bacon’s Three Studies of Lucian Freud.

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Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...

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Renaissance is a French word meaning ‘rebirth’, and in this case, it refers...

Takaya Miou, Love Thyself. Courtesy of the Honolulu Museum of Art. The...

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Peter Paul Rubens, Hercules's Dog Discovers Purple Dye, ca. 1636, Musée...

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The post-World War II period of the late 1940s to 1950s onward saw not only just a...

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The Legion of Honor's new exhibit Gods in Color: Polychromy in the...

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Diana and Callisto by Peter Paul Rubens at the Prado Museum

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