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Arrive in Color

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Sep 30, 2026
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Claude Lorrain, The Landing of Cleopatra at Tarsus, 1642-43. Musée du Louvre, Paris. Public domain.

Look at this. Claude Lorrain painted Cleopatra landing at Tarsus almost four hundred years ago, and the whole harbor is glowing gold.

She’s so small in the frame you could almost miss her, and you still know exactly who just arrived.

And can we talk about th…

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