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Mona Lisa #1: “The Wonder Lisa”
This week we’re looking at a classic: Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci, housed in the...
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“Help me, Obi-Wan Davinci. You’re my only hope.”
The Phaaaaaaaaaaaaaantom of the opera is here!
Picasso was accused of stealing it, and Napoleon hung it in his bedroom
They grow up so fast
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Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Musée du Louvre
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Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre
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You're gunna get cut
I’d give that cannonball a 6 out of 10
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Think twice before your next wax
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Photo courtesy of Classical Art MemesThis past Sunday was the 88th Academy Awards...
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Something very strange was going on in Italy around the turn of the 16th century....
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This week, behold Leonardo da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi.
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Detail from La Città Nuova (The New City) by Antonio Sant’...
If you love Percy Jackson and the Olympians as much as I do, you will fall head...
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Once Punched a Skeleton
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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American People Series #19: U.S. Postage Stamp Commemorating the Advent of...
