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The Festival of Living Art

The Festival of Living Artis the 7th episode of Season 4of Gilmore Girls. This episode is also titled Love Me or Louvre Me.^[1]

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As the town prepares to serve as last-minute host to the Festival of Living Pictures, Kirk takes Method acting a bit too far and Lorelai tries to rewrite a bad review. In other events, Lane works to convince the rest of the band that she has found their new guitarist (guest star Sebastian Bach of the band Skid Row); an overdue Sookie opts to have her baby at home and hires a midwife (Rusty Schwimmer); and Luke is surprised by a proposition from Nicole (guest star Tricia O'Kelley).

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• The episode won an Emmy for Outstanding Make-Up For A Series^[3]. It is the only Emmy the show was ever nominated for.
• Even though title of this episode is "The Festival of Living Art", it is referred to as "The Festival of Living Pictures" by the characters.
• Lorelai notes that her mixtape includes "99 Luftballoons," the song she was listening to at the hospital w
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  Do you remember Gilmore Girls? The show revolved around a small town and the funny little characters in it, specifically Rory Gilmore and her mother Lorelai, occasionally it focused on their shitty relationships but when Sam, I mean Dean (Jared Padalecki) wasn’t an interesting concept to revolve an episode around, they had to do something to fill that time!

  I kid around of course, if I had guilty pleasures, Gilmore Girls would be one of them, It’s a cozy show with cozy characters who will do things that make you want to scream at the tv, but sometimes their episodes are oddly educational.

  The Festival of Living Art was the 7th episode of season 4 of Gilmore Girls, and it centered around a special event the town was putting on, exactly what it sounds like.. townspeople were to dress up and be made up to look exactly like figures from famous paintings, it was a very ambitious idea for an episode, and for a small town to do. Lets dive a little bit into what the hell I’m talking about before you get tired of reading and click off the article….

  First up we have Rory (Alexis Bled

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  More about Antea

  In the Rome of Parmigianino's day, courtesans were beloved by many, many people.

  135 years after the artist finished this work, Giacomo Barri gave it the name of one of the most famous courtesans, praised by the author Pietro Aretino and the sculptor Benvenuto Cellini, whose name was Antea. What's the difference between a courtesan, an escort, a prostitute, and, as the late Nate Dogg sang in his radio edit of "Area Codes," a "pro"? Nothing at all, it turns out, but the names for the world's oldest job range from the lofty "courtesan," with its close resemblance to "courtier," to the derisive ones we've all heard on your favorite reality show, or a random episode of Maury Povich. 

  I can't totally fault Barri for publishing, in his "Picturesque Journey of Italy," the insinuation that Parmigianino had a lil' thang going with the famous Antea, and that this picture is the woman herself. No doubt, Barri was just trying to pay the bills with some juicy proto-TMZ gossip, and the ploy worked. But his machinations, like the butterfly effect, have far-reaching cons