The Golden Girls: The Old Masters & Modern Art

My friend Cynthia just sent me a link to these over at Yankee Pot Roast and I simply have no words. Other than, "Fucking brilliant."

These are "selected masterworks from The Golden Girls Exhibit, arriving at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art this September."

Mona Beasa (La Zbornak)

Leonardo Da Vinci, c. 1503

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Rue with a Pearl Earring

Johannes Vermeer, circa 1665–1675

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Betty and Child

Raphael, c. 1503

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The Birth of Estelle

Sandro Botticelli, c. 1485–1486

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Rose

Andy Warhol, 1961

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Sophia

Roy Lichtenstein, 1963

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Blanche

Patrick Nagel, 1982

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Untitled (Fuck St. Olaf)

Barbara Kruger, 1990

"Fuck St. Olaf," indeed.