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2. List of photographs considered the most important - Wikipedia

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   Fenton's pictures during the Crimean War were one of the first cases of war photography, with Valley of the Shadow of Death considered "the most eloquent metaphor of warfare" by The Oxford Companion to the Photograph. [13] [14] [s 2] Sergeant Dawson and his Daughter: 1855 Unknown; attributed to John Jabez Edwin Mayall [15] Unknown [e] [s 1] The ...

3. Wikipedia : Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings

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   Directory of featured pictures Animals · Artwork · Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle · Currency · Diagrams, drawings, and maps · Engineering and technology · Food and drink · Fungi · History · Natural phenomena · People · Photographic techniques, terms, and equipment · Places · Plants · Sciences · Space · Vehicles · Other ...

4. Famous Artists Who Defined And Continue To Shape The ... - AOL

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   Image credits: Fine Art / Getty Images #4 Claude Monet (November 14, 1840 — December 5, 1926) Claude Monet was a French painter who, according to Laura Auricchio of the Department of Art and ...

5. List of most expensive paintings - Wikipedia

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   The most famous paintings, especially old master works created before 1803, are generally owned or held by museums for viewing by patrons. Since museums rarely sell them, they are considered priceless. Guinness World Records lists Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa as having the highest insurance value for a painting.

6. Gallery of the Sistine Chapel ceiling - Wikipedia

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   The complex design includes several sets of individual figures, both clothed and nude, which allowed Michelangelo to fully demonstrate his skill in creating a huge variety of poses for the human figure, and have provided an enormously influential pattern book of models for other artists ever since.

7. 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.