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Jean-Paul Lauren’s “Saint Jean Chrysostome et l’Imperatrice Eudoxie” (year)

Current Location:  Musee des Augustins, Toulouse, France

FACT OF THE DAY: You know you’re gonna be mine…you know you’re gonna be mine. Why waste your time?

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Jean-Paul Lauren‘s “L’Excommunication de Robert le Pieux” (1875)

Current Location: Musée d’Orsay, Paris France

FACT OF THE DAY: Besides excommunication, quitting smoking was the hardest thing Robert le Pieux ever went through.

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William Adolphe Bouguereau‘s “Young Girl Defending Herself Against Eros” (1880)

Current Location: J. Paul Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA

FACT OF THE DAY: A boy must defend his mother till the day he dies.

Tags: William Bouguereau, Young Girl, Eros, Cupid, Love, Hate, Stewie Griffin, Lois Griffin, Vile Wench, Defend Yourself, It seems today, that all you see, is violence in movies and sex on TV, but where are those good old fashioned values, on which we used to rely? Lucky there’s a Family Guy, Lucky there’s a man who, positively can do, all the things that make us,, Laugh and Cry, he’s our Family Guy, Art Kicks Ass by Bradley Werner, famous art, masterpieces, artists, painter,

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Jean-Paul Lauren‘s “The Last Moments of Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico” (1882)

Current Location: Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

FACT OF THE DAY: It’s always a good time for Nachos!

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Edouard Manet’s “The Fifer” (1866)

Current Location: Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France

FACT OF THE DAY: In 3 years the Beatles went from “I Want to Hold Your Hand” to “I am the Walrus”

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Paul Delaroche’s “The Execution of Lady Jane Gray” (year)

Current Location: The National Gallery, London

FACT OF THE DAY: You can’t wear white before Memorial Day or after Labor Day…or you’ll be executed by the fashion police.

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Jacques-Louis David‘s “Napoleon at the Saint-Bernard Pass” (year)

Current Location: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

FACT OF THE DAY: Invading Russia was Orko’s idea.

REAL FACT OF THE DAY: Napoleon crossed the Alps on a mule! (true story)

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Andrew Wyeth’s “Christina’s World” (1948)

Current Location: Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

HELPFUL QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Get up you sonofabitch…cause Mickey loves ya!”

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Edward Hopper‘s “People in the Sun” (1960)

Current Location: National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.

FACT OF THE DAY:  People are all the same – some just have better tans.

OTHER FACT OF THE DAY: The other Edward Hopper painting you’re thinking of is “Nighthawks“

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Édouard Manet‘s “Luncheon on the Grass” (1863)

Current Location: Musée d’Orsay in Paris

FACT OF THE DAY: If you even think of dating my little sister, I will punch you in the wiener.

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Howard Terpning‘s “Grandfather Prays to Sun” (1974)

Current Location: Private Collection

FACT OF THE DAY: Native Americans, traditionally, weren’t the best negotiators.

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John Trumbull‘s “Declaration of Independence” (1819)

Current Location: United States Capitol Rotunda

FACT OF THE DAY: John Adam’s eventually let Thomas Jefferson finish.

ONE OF THE BEST VIDEOS OF ALL TIME: http://www.ishatonu.com/2009/09/17/old-news-kanye-west-interrupts-taylor-swifts-moment/

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Edward Hopper‘s “Nighthawks” (1942)

Current Location: Art Institute of Chicago, IL

REAL FACT OF THE DAY: The scene was inspired by a diner (since demolished) in Greenwich Village, Hopper’s home neighborhood in Manhattan. The now-vacant lot is known as Mulry Square, at the intersection of Seventh Avenue South, Greenwich Avenue, and West 11th Street.

FUN FACT OF THE DAY: Alcohol can cure the common cold.

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Carl Bloch‘s “The Resurrection” (1883)

Current Location:The Hope Gallery, Salt Late City, Utah

FACT OF THE DAY: Jesus could make a killer omelet.

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Carl Heinrich Bloch “Christ Healing at the Pool of Bethesda” (1878)

Current Location: The Museum of Art, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah

Tags: Jesus, doing his thing, healing the sick, making his mama proud, Mary would have been proud her boy became a, doctor, a lawyer, a media mogul, Jewish mother, The Museum of Art, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, Art Kicks Ass by Bradley Werner, famous art, masterpieces, artists, scultpture, painter

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Carl Heinrich Bloch‘s “The Birth of Christ” (1875)

Current Location: The Hope Gallery, Salt Late City, Utah

Tags: Jesus Week, Christ, Bethlehem, First your Born, Christ the savior is born, why’s the kid glowing? Confused father, Mary was a virgin (but might have gotten busy with the holy spirit), Utah loves Bloch, Art Kicks Ass by Bradley Werner, famous art, masterpieces, artists, painter

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William-Adolphe Bouguereau‘s “Le Printemps” (1866)

Current Location: Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska

FACT OF THE DAY: Baby’s don’t fly…but often…they bounce.

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Gustave Courbet‘s “The Painter’s Atelier” (1855)

Current Location: Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France

FACT OF THE DAY: Gustave Courbet told people this picture was the culmination of memories and dreams from 7 years of painting in his studio…he had a rockin’ good time. Fact.

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