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The bookworm painting
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Book lovers and collectors feared becoming a victim of the pseudo-illness.
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When Madame de Pompadour, chief mistress to Louis XV, had her portrait painted by Rococo master François Boucher in 1756, the choice was made that she be sumptuously reclined with an opened book in her lap — a discerning artistic trope that indicated her intellectual accomplishments as a patron of the arts and letters. In that and innumerable other paintings, books have appeared as signs of erudition in portraits, as symbols of piety in religious work, and, after the invention of the…
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Copy of one of my favourite shuffles that I seen on the fyp
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Study of a girl reading
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