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Red Palettes from Famous Paintings

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

The Captive Slave (Ira Aldridge) John Philip Simpson, 1827 Oil Sketch for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884" Georges Seurat, 1884 Saint Thomas Aquinas Aided by Saints Peter and Paul Bartolomeo degli Erri Woman Combing Her Hair Edgar Degas, ca. 1888–90 Portrait of a Man Italian Painter Anna van der Aar (born 1576/77, died after 1626) Frans Hals, 1626 Saints John the Evangelist and Lawrence Defendente Ferrari Portrait of a Woman Bernhard Strigel, ca. 1510–15 Lukas Spielhausen Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1532 Saint John the Evangelist Causes a Pagan Temple to Collapse Francescuccio Ghissi (Francesco di Cecco Ghissi), ca. 1370
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