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Art, Death, and the Museum’s Most Beautiful Breakup with Innocence
There’s a moment in the Louvre when you stop being a tourist and start paying attention.
It doesn’t happen in front of the Mona Lisa, where crowds press and cameras click. It happens when you wander into the less-traveled wings—past the saints, the sarcophagi, the paintings no one posts on Instagram—and you start noticing a pattern:
Everywhere you look, someone is dying.