| the heist |
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| your personal art thief |
| July 19, 2026 |
| Last Night's Haul |
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| Two male figures, seen from the front and back, with the cutaneous veins of the human body displayed. Engraving, 1568. |
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Gaspar Becerra print/drawing · lifted from Wellcome Collection, London |
| also in the bag: |
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Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary) Paul Gauguin, 1891 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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Spindle Whorl Unknown, 700s - 900s · The Cleveland Museum of Art |
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Portretten van Giuliano en Francesco Giamberti da Sangallo Piero di Cosimo, 1482 - 1485 · Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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Fiddler Unidentified, early 20th century · the Smithsonian American Art Museum |
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The Jabach Family Charles Le Brun, ca. 1660 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| The Line |
| "Enter KING JOHN, ELINOR, BLANCH, the BASTARD, PEMBROKE, and others. If not, bleed France, and peace ascend to heaven, Whiles we, God's wrathful agent, do correct." |
| King John, Shakespeare |
| From the Vault |
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The Adam Forepaugh and Sells Brothers America's greatest shows consolidated--A troupe of pearl divers from Hawaii, Sandwich Islands ... A veritable circus of the sea, 1898-01-01 found in the Library of Congress |
| On the Lam |
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| Ghent, Belgium |
| Ghent is a city and a municipality in the East Flanders province of the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of the province and the third largest in the country, after Brussels and Antwerp. Lay low here. |
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