| the heist |
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| your personal art thief |
| August 17, 2026 |
| Last Night's Haul |
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| The Musicians |
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Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi), 1597 Oil on canvas · lifted from The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| also in the bag: |
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Embroidered Band Unknown, 1500s - 1600s · The Cleveland Museum of Art |
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Making Merry in a Farm Cottage Adriaen van Ostade, 1635 · SMK, the National Gallery of Denmark |
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D'Angers-Champin David d'Angers, 1850 · Wikimedia Commons |
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Four Regents and the ‘House Father’ of the Amsterdam Lepers’ Asylum Werner van den Valckert, 1624 · Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Engraving. Unknown · Wellcome Collection, London |
| The Line |
| "His time of fearing death. Stoop, Romans, stoop, And let us bathe our hands in Caesar's blood. Then walk we forth, even to the marketplace, And waving our red weapons o'er our heads." |
| Julius Caesar, Shakespeare |
| From the Vault |
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Charles Frohman's production, The circus girl, 1897-01-01 found in the Library of Congress |
| On the Lam |
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| Bariloche, Argentina |
| San Carlos de Bariloche, commonly known simply as Bariloche, is the largest city in the Argentine province of Río Negro and the seat of the department of the same name. It is located in the foothills of the Patagonian Andes on the southern shore of Nahuel Huapi Lake, near the border with Chile. Lay low here. |
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