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Art lifted up her head and was seated on her throne, and said, All eyes shall see me, and all knees shall bow to me. (William Hazlitt, on the Louvre)

Great art has dreadful manners. The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are polite things, visions that soothe, charm and beguile, but actually they are thugs. Merciless and wily, the greatest paintings grab yo...

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