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08-14-2016, 06:07 PM
When Salvador Dalí tried to get a rhi** to attack a Vermeer painting
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In his long artistic career, Salvador Dalí had more than a few obsessions. Two of them — Vermeer’s painting The Lacemaker and rhi**ceros horns — intersected one day at the Vincennes Zoo in Paris.
Dalí’s transfixion with The Lacemaker stretched back to when he was 9 years old and became "absolutely obsessed in a truly delirious way" with the painting.
In 1954, he arranged for a private session with the painting at the Louvre, where he would attempt to copy it in one hour.
As the story goes, after the hour was over Dalí had **t painted a woman working with lace, but rather a set of rhi**ceros horns. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/14/dali-rhi**/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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In his long artistic career, Salvador Dalí had more than a few obsessions. Two of them — Vermeer’s painting The Lacemaker and rhi**ceros horns — intersected one day at the Vincennes Zoo in Paris.
Dalí’s transfixion with The Lacemaker stretched back to when he was 9 years old and became "absolutely obsessed in a truly delirious way" with the painting.
In 1954, he arranged for a private session with the painting at the Louvre, where he would attempt to copy it in one hour.
As the story goes, after the hour was over Dalí had **t painted a woman working with lace, but rather a set of rhi**ceros horns. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/14/dali-rhi**/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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