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# Old Master Paintings Animated
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/old-master-paintings-animated/
- Published: 2014-01-17T18:54:11.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:33:59.000Z
- Description: This is what art looks like on drugs.
- Author: Hrag Vartanian
- Tags: Opinion, GIF, Old Masters, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:03 (2014, 2015, part 1)

[![bourgereau-angels-HOME](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2014/01/bourgereau-angels-home.gif)](http://vimeo.com/83910533?ref=hyperallergic.com)

As someone who has (allegedly) taken LSD in the galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and watched the flowers in various paintings blossom right before my eyes, I recognize the visual illusions created by Rino Stefano Tagliafierro in “Beauty.” Let’s leave it at that.