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Topsy turvy
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Some good old fashioned tentacle porn
The one that got away
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Reynolda House Museum of American Art is one of our Nation’s most venerable...
Togas descending a staircase
Damaged goods
Falsely accused
More accurate title: mistress begs husband to leave horrid wife
The innocent hippopotamus
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Made in a cabin
The Revolution will have shapes
Only men can see this one
It’s my party and I’ll die if I want to
Wearing a vest of many colors
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Hogarth was all about that pug life
Move over, Judith!
He left the cat for last
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Excellent, eccentric, and damn queer
Lovely sketch, sketchy love
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Okay, so maybe it’s not that kind of Rubens, but there are some...
Up in flames
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Just another naked lady
Witness her
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President Obama must still be getting flak from angry art historians over that...
It’s important to note: the Romantic Art Movement has nothing to do with...
Vincent van Gogh, A Wheatfield with Cypresses, 1889. In Robert Frost’s...
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Girl crush
People Magazine has decided Blake Shelton is the “2017 Sexiest Man Alive”...
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The evolution of infatuation
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Welcome to Dames Done Wrong, where we handle misogyny, sexism and everyday...
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Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
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Lucas Cranach the Elder, who painted The Fountain of Youth in the 1500s must be...
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Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
Goering was eager to be thought of as a man of culture, and he was also Hitler’s...
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John as Jack as Joker. I’m obsessed with John Malkovich so imagine my...
Centuries before feminism had a name, post-Renaissance artist Artemisia Gentileschi...
