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Red Palettes from Famous Paintings

Paintings where red is one of the main colors, turned into room palettes.

A Mexican Vaquero Frederic Remington, 1890 La Berceuse (Woman Rocking a Cradle; Augustine-Alix Pellicot Roulin, 1851–1930) Vincent van Gogh, 1889 The Young Virgin Francisco de Zurbarán, ca. 1632–33 Petronella Elias (1648–1667) with a Basket of Fruit Ferdinand Bol, 1657 Saint Jerome Antonio Vivarini, 1440s The Massacre of the Innocents Sano di Pietro (Ansano di Pietro di Mencio), ca. 1470 Landscape with Two Poplars Vasily Kandinsky, 1912 Portrait of a Woman Piero del Pollaiuolo (Piero di Jacopo Benci), ca. 1480 Madonna and Child Giovanni Bellini, ca. 1510 The Court of the Princess Adolphe Monticelli
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