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  2. Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister - Wikipedia

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    Some 750 paintings, or 40 percent of the entire collection, are exhibited in the gallery. They date from the 15th to the 18th centuries. Paintings from the 19th century onwards are displayed in the New Masters Gallery (Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister) in the Albertinum.

  3. Category:18th-century paintings - Wikipedia

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    Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; ... 18th-century painting stubs (344 P) Pages in category "18th-century paintings"

  4. 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.

  5. Thomas Gainsborough - Wikipedia

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    Thomas Gainsborough RA FRSA (/ ˈ ɡ eɪ n z b ər ə /; 14 May 1727 (baptised) – 2 August 1788) was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker.Along with his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds, [1] he is considered one of the most important British artists of the second half of the 18th century. [2]

  6. European printmaking in the 18th century - Wikipedia

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    The next generation, between the 18th and 19th centuries, is that of the neoclassicists: Jacques-Louis David, considered the father of French Neoclassicism, a painter of historical paintings in a sober style, produced some etchings with a caricatured tone (English Government, 1793-1794; The Army of Jars, 1793-1794); [12] Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, who sporadically practiced printmaking, in intaglio ...

  7. Beer Street and Gin Lane - Wikipedia

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    The two prints were issued a month after Hogarth's friend Henry Fielding published his contribution to the debate on gin: An Inquiry into the Late Increase in Robbers, and they aim at the same targets, though Hogarth's work lays more blame for the gin craze on oppression by the governing class and focuses less on the choice of crime as a ticket to a life of ease.

  8. Canaletto - Wikipedia

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    Canaletto's views always fetched high prices, and as early as the 18th century Catherine the Great and other European monarchs vied for his grandest paintings. The record price paid at auction for a Canaletto is £ 18.6 million for View of the Grand Canal from Palazzo Balbi to the Rialto , set at Sotheby's in London in July 2005.

  9. 18th-century French art - Wikipedia

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    The latter half of the 18th century continued to see French preeminence in Europe, particularly through the arts and sciences, and the French language was the lingua franca of the European courts. The French academic system continued to produce artists, but some, like Jean-Honoré Fragonard and Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin , explored new and ...

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