Stealing Leonardo da Vinci’s painting was like stealing beauty itself.

偷窃达芬奇的画就像在偷窃美本身一样。

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The painting is telling us that the standards of beauty in this culture have always been set by whites.

这幅画告诉我们，当今文化里美的标准已经由白人所规定。

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And the beauty of a rare edition or of a richly manufactured volume is like that of a painting or a statue.

一部珍本或一本装帧华美的书的美，同一幅油画或一尊塑像的美是一样的。

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Many first time visitors recognize it because artists have been painting the beauty of Taos Pueblo for years.

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The purpose, he says, is to evoke joy through spectacular beauty, a feat he intends to achieve by painting the 410, 000 barrels, producing a three-dimensional mosaic of red and blue and yellow in the desert 100 miles outside Abu Dhabi City.

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One early assessment of his Richmond Hill painting said it depicted "a view unsurpassed for its purely English beauty".

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In the winter, dusted by fallen snow, its pure abstraction is set off by bare trees, a vision of cold, crisp beauty, its marble taking on the look of an all-white Agnes Martin painting.

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