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Workshop of Raphael? An insightful investigation of an upcoming “Madonna and Child” on sale at Sotheby’s London 

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Philip IV - Diego Velázquez, 1624-27

I encourage you guys to watch this hilarious and awesome video concerning this painting, where a member of an improv group went to the Met dressed as King Philip and greeted his fans.

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Always thought this was a bit of an overrated rehash of Titian’s “Danae”

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Venus At Her Mirror (The Rokeby Venus) - Diego Velázquez, c. 1644-48

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Unintentional or not , you have love the notes of Caravaggio in this hagiography: chiaroscuro, drama and frenetic energy evoke the proper visual analogy Hendrix’s music. If Merisi were around during the 1960’s, somehow I could see him ingesting a bunch of hallucinogens and listening to Jimi to produce something mind blowing.

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Federico da Montefeltro, on PED’s? 

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Fernando Botero, After Piero della Francesca, 1998

The celebrated “View of Toledo” by El Greco, another spiritual forerunner to abstraction…echoes of Post-Impressionism?

Ingres’ “Jupiter and Thetis” would have been his submission for the”Watch the Throne” album cover.