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[aplaceinthestar]

There’s a lot of things your art history books don’t tell you. Things about the history of particular pieces of art that change how you look at them. Things that change what the pieces mean. Things that make you doubt everything you knew

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[fooganschnot]

Raft of the Medusa has always grossed me out. I want to say Pendleton told us the whole slave-trade story behind it, but then again, maybe she just said the cannibalism-while-stranded-at-sea story.

It's pretty sad to think of all the artwork, I mean, worth millions, looted and hidden and destroyed through WW2.