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Brosiery Through the Ages

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    Rudolf Nureyev, 1963

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    Adoration of the Holy Wood and the Meeting of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, ca. 1452, by Piero della Francesca

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    Louis XIV by Hyacinthe Rigaud, 1701

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    Napoleon Crossing the Alps by Jacques-Louis David, 1801

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    The Kiss by Francesco Hayez, 1859