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| your personal art thief |
| August 21, 2026 |
| Last Night's Haul |
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| Peasant with a Hoe |
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Georges Seurat, c. 1882 oil on wood · lifted from National Gallery of Art, Washington |
| also in the bag: |
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A Young Man Holding a Staff Pieter Claesz Soutman, 1640 · National Gallery of Art, Washington |
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Astronomy: various apocalyptic scenes, including a flogging, a mob by the... Unknown, 1841 · Wellcome Collection, London |
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Flag Holder Unidentified, 19th century · the Smithsonian American Art Museum |
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Swedish: Björkdunge, kvinna vid gärdesgård Olof Hermelin · Wikimedia Commons |
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Eliza Welch Stone Thomas Skynner, c. 1845 · National Gallery of Art, Washington |
| The Line |
| "Bene. Suffer love! --a good epithet. I do suffer love indeed, for I love thee against my will." |
| Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare |
| From the Vault |
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October's "bright blue weather" A good time to read!, 1936 found in the Library of Congress |
| On the Lam |
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| Bologna, Italy |
| Bologna is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy, with 390,734 inhabitants from 150 different nationalities. Lay low here. |
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