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On this Holy Week, I still believe in the humor of it all. This weeks Monday Morning ARTe is a story about a monk blessed with artistic talent, who didn't necessarily believe EVERYTHING God said.

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Happy Holidays from The ARTe Project.

Subscribe to Monday Morning ARTe Every new week should start with something beautiful. And a story. The ARTe Project brings you intriguing stories designed to add some fun to learning about art. And history. And artists. And the world. Click to read Monday Morning ARTe, a Substack publication. Launched 2 months ago.

"They lived in squares, painted in circles and loved in triangles." So begins this week's rollicking Monday Morning ARTe story.

Among the generational wackiness of the famed Bloomsbury Group you'll find Anjelica Garnett who discovered late that her husband had also been her father's lover. And her uncle's, as well. It was just another oddity in the tangled lives of the artists, musicians, writers and intellectuals whose tidy English mansion was ground zero for the explosion of modern art at the beginning of the 20th Century. Read the whole tangled, tantalizing, bed-hopping story with a FREE subscription to Monday Morning ARTe. thearteproject.substack.com/subscribe

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"One evening in a Paris nightclub so urbane even the busboys were snobs, an impoverished and fatherless farm girl met the son of a Jewish tailor from Brooklyn."

These are the opening lines from this week's Monday Morning ARTe." The following story tells the tale of Max Radnitsky and Alice Prin, two impassioned lovers in Jazz-age Paris. Both became world-famous as entirely different people. Find out who with a FREE subscription to our Substack, here: thearteproject.substack.com/subscribe

Monday Morning ARTe | Substack Every new week should start with something beautiful. And a story. The ARTe Project brings you intriguing stories designed to add some fun to learning about art. And history. And artists. And the world. Click to read Monday Morning ARTe, a Substack publication. Launched a month ago.

One of the most iconic paintings in American history has never been seen by American audiences. In fact, it was destroyed in World War II ... by American bombers.

"Washington Crossing the Delaware" is one of the most star-crossed paintings in history. Emanuel Luetze had to paint it three times due to natural catastrophes and an American gallerist's promotional schemes.

Yet, today, this is one of the few paintings almost every American school child can remember seeing. Read the fascinating story behind this touchstone of American history on Monday Morning ARTe: https://open.substack.com/pub/thearteproject/p/an-american-classic-inspires-revolutions?r=40nhv4&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Monday Morning ARTe | Substack Every new week should start with something beautiful. And a story. The ARTe Project brings you intriguing stories designed to add some fun to learning about art. And history. And artists. And the world. Click to read Monday Morning ARTe, a Substack publication. Launched a month ago.