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| Peter Paul Rubens was a prolific seventeenth-century Flemish Baroque painter, and a proponent of the Baroque style that emphasized movement, color, and sensuality. He is well-known for his portraits, landscapes, and history paintings of mythological and allegorical subjects. |
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| One of the greatest Dutch artists. Vermeer painted mostly domestic interiors, often of a woman alone doing something like pouring milk, weighing jewels, reading a letter, playing a lute. It is not known who any of the models were. He did not make a living from his paintings, however, possibly because he painted so few - just 35 are known to exist, and he produced only two or three a year.
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| La Tour was a highly influential French painter.
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| 7van Eyck was an Early Netherlands painter considered one of the best Northern European painters of the 15th century. There is a common misconception, that Jan van Eyck invented oil painting. It is however true that he achieved, or perfected, new and remarkable effects using this technique.
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van Dyck was a Flemish Baroque artist who became the leading court painter in England. He is most famous for his portraits of King Charles I of England and Scotland and his family and court, painted with a relaxed elegance that was to be the dominant influence on English portrait-painting for the next 150 years.
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| Canaletto was a Venetian artist famous for his landscapes of Venice. He was also an important printmaker in etching.
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| Goya was a Spanish painter and printmaker. Goya was a court painter to the Spanish Crown and a chronicler of history. He has been regarded both as the last of the Old Masters and as the first of the moderns. The subjective element in his art, as well as his bold handling of paint, provided a model for the work of later generations of artists, notably Manet and Picasso.
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| Jean Chardin's work had little in common with the painting that dominated French art in the 18th century. At a time when historical painting was considered most important for public art, Chardin's subjects of choice were viewed as minor categories, nevertheless he found an appreciative audience in his time, and account for his timeless appeal.
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| 5Jacques Louis David was a highly influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the prominent painter of the era. In the 1780s his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change toward a classical art.
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| Bruegel was a Netherlands painter and printmaker known for his landscapes and peasant scenes. Bruegel specialized in landscapes populated by peasants. He is often credited as being the first Western painter to paint landscapes for their own sake, rather than as a backdrop for history painting.
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