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Fragonard. Rinaldo in the Garden of the Palace of Armida, 1763.

Wayne White. Schadenfreude, 2010.

I really think Wayne White has a great opportunity here in this trite Fragonard to create one of his famous wry pastiche placards, perhaps overlaying an all-caps "SYPHILIS".

#Painting

An 18th-century pastoral painting of an idealized classical bucolic garden setting in which two richly clad nobles (a male-female pairing) are playfully flirting below a statue of Venus.
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A vandalized kitsch painting of idealized picturesque mountains with a row of conifers and shallow river running below over which has been painted the word Schadenfreude in colorful comic block lettering.
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Jul 5, 2026, 10:41 UTCen