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Artemisia Gentileschi. Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, ca. 1620-25. Oil on canvas,...
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Once Punched a Skeleton
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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This week, behold Mark Rothko’s Orange, Red, Yellow.
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