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• Put your face in a painting — {total} paintings, one selfie, no account. Here is what actually happens to the picture, and how to pick the one that will work.
• Self-portrait face swap — {inHub} of these {total} paintings are pictures of the painter. Putting your own face in one is closer to the original idea than it sounds.
• Renaissance face swap — {inHub} of the {total} are actually Renaissance work. Some of the rest are older than that and most are a great deal younger — the difference is worth two minutes.
• Royal portrait face swap — {inHub} people who had their picture painted to settle an argument about who was in charge. The clothes are the argument; the face can be yours.
• Baroque portrait face swap — {inHub} paintings from the century that invented the single light source. If you want the swap to look painted rather than pasted, start here.
• Medieval portrait face swap — {inHub} panels from the end of the Middle Ages, when painters in the north first worked out how to put one specific human being on a piece of wood.
• Victorian portrait face swap — {inHub} portraits from the reign that gave the word its meaning, painted between 1856 and 1892, and no two of them agree about what a face is for.
• Tudor portrait face swap — {inHub} portraits from one English century and, for the most part, one family — a dynasty that lasted three generations and spent every one of them worrying about the next.
• Dutch Golden Age face swap — {inHub} paintings from one small republic in one lucky century, when for the first time ordinary people with money could have their faces painted properly.
• Fayum portrait face swap — {inHub} panels from Roman Egypt, painted in coloured wax on wood, and older than everything else in this catalogue by more than a thousand years.
• Oil portrait face swap — {inHub} oil portraits of exactly the kind people once paid to have made of themselves, painted between 1782 and 1907, when a full-dress likeness was at its most expensive and least modest.
• Famous people face swap — {inHub} people everyone can name and almost nobody could pick out of a crowd, because what made them famous was never their face.

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