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    A gutsy goddess

    Dec 27, 2019 1 minute

    On 10 March 1914, a woman named Mary Richardson walked into the National Gallery in London carrying a meat cleaver. The suffragette walked up to Velázquez’s famous , which shows Venus’s naked back as she gazes into a mirror, and plunged

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