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Editorial
. 2010 Jan;65(1):53-6.
doi: 10.1093/gerona/glp166. Epub 2009 Nov 17.

Obesity in aging and art

Luigi Ferrucci, Stephanie A Studenski, Dawn E Alley, Mario Barbagallo, Tamara B Harris
Editorial

Obesity in aging and art

Luigi Ferrucci et al. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2010 Jan.
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Venus of Willendorf (authors unknown, Superior Paleolithic, 20–30 thousand years BC.).
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Madonna with the Christ Child and St. John the Baptist. Lorenzo di Credi (1459–1537).
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Portrait of the Tuscan General Alessandro del Borro, 1645, attributed to Charles Mellin.
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Venus at a Mirror. Peter Paul Rubens, 1615.
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Woman at the well, 1910. Pierre Auguste Renoir.
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A Family. Fernando Botero 1996.
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