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  2. Arnolfini Portrait - Wikipedia

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    Whatever meaning is given to the scene and its details, and there has been much debate on this, according to Craig Harbison the painting "is the only fifteenth-century Northern panel to survive in which the artist's contemporaries are shown engaged in some sort of action in a contemporary interior.

  3. The Son of Man - Wikipedia

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    At least it hides the face partly well, so you have the apparent face, the apple, hiding the visible but hidden, the face of the person. It's something that happens constantly. Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does not ...

  4. Impression, Sunrise - Wikipedia

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    Impression, Sunrise (French: Impression, soleil levant) is an 1872 painting by Claude Monet first shown at what would become known as the "Exhibition of the Impressionists" in Paris in April, 1874. The painting is credited with inspiring the name of the Impressionist movement. Impression, Sunrise depicts the port of Le Havre, Monet's hometown.

  5. Portrait of mystery woman found beneath famous Pablo ... - AOL

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    The Courtauld said there's evidence toward the bottom of the painting that suggests that it was a "much-reworked canvas" and that the mystery woman might have been a figure painted in Picasso's ...

  6. The Ambassadors (Holbein) - Wikipedia

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    Though he was a German-born artist who spent much of his time in England, Holbein here displays the influence of Early Netherlandish painting.He used oils which for panel paintings had been developed a century before in Early Netherlandish painting, and just as Jan van Eyck and the Master of Flémalle used extensive imagery to link their subjects to religious concepts, Holbein used symbolic ...

  7. Three unknown Modigliani sketches found hidden in one of his ...

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    Three previously unknown sketches by celebrated 20th century artist Amedeo Modigliani have lurked unseen beneath the surface of one of his paintings.

  8. The Return of the Prodigal Son (Rembrandt) - Wikipedia

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    Art historian H. W. Janson writes that Prodigal Son "may be [Rembrandt's] most moving painting. It is also his quietest—a moment stretching into eternity. So pervasive is the mood of tender silence that the viewer feels a kinship with this group. That bond is perhaps stronger and more intimate in this picture than in any earlier work of art." [6]

  9. Mona Lisa - Wikipedia

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    In 1909, the art collector Comtesse de Béhague gave the portrait its current frame, [129] a Renaissance-era work consistent with the historical period of the Mona Lisa. The edges of the painting have been trimmed at least once in its history to fit the picture into various frames, albeit no part of the original paint layer has been trimmed. [85]

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