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You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting __anity,_ thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.
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You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting __anity,_ thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for you own pleasure.

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