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Who was Frida Kahlo?
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Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray by David Martin, c1779
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What great paintings say
American Gothic By Grant Wood, 1930
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Marriage à-la-mode: 2. The Tête à Tête by William Hogarth, c1743–45
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The Arnolfini Portrait by Jan van Eyck, 1434
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The Duke: The real story of Kempton Bunton and the theft of Goya’s Wellington portrait
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