Art has always been a dangerous business. Painters create, governments judge, and history watches. The most chilling irony in art history might be the number of masterpieces destroyed not by enemies, but by the very regimes that commissioned them in the first place. When power turns on its own artists, the reasons vary—political shifts, religious upheaval, or simple paranoia. But the pattern remains consistent: rulers who once celebrated these w…
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