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  2. List of paintings by Edvard Munch - Wikipedia

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    This is a complete list of paintings by Edvard Munch (12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) [1] a Norwegian symbolist painter, printmaker and an important forerunner of expressionist art. His best-known composition, The Scream (1893), is part of a series The Frieze of Life , in which Munch explored the themes of love, fear, death, melancholia ...

  3. Dutch art - Wikipedia

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    Vermeer painted mostly domestic interior scenes, and even his two known landscapes are framed with a window. The interior scenes are usually genre pieces or portraits. The Utrecht School is a term used to describe a group of painters working in the city of Utrecht in the 17th century. Their work is considered part of the Baroque period of art ...

  4. Art of Europe - Wikipedia

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    The art of Europe, also known as Western art, encompasses the history of visual art in Europe. European prehistoric art started as mobile Upper Paleolithic rock and cave painting and petroglyph art and was characteristic of the period between the Paleolithic and the Iron Age . [ 1 ]

  5. List of most expensive paintings - Wikipedia

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    Museum of Modern Art New York: Private sale via Thomas Ammann, Fine Art Zurich [63] $145.6 $107.5 L’Homme assis au verre: Pablo Picasso: 1914 May 2011: Yves Bouvier [note 14] Dmitry Rybolovlev: Private sale via Yves Bouvier [64] [65] $139.3 $139.3 Femme à la montre: Pablo Picasso: 1932 November 9, 2023: Emily Fisher Landau's estate Anonymous ...

  6. Italian art - Wikipedia

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    The period is considered to be the beginning of the Italian Renaissance or at least the Proto-Renaissance in art history. Painters of the Trecento included Giotto di Bondone , as well as painters of the Sienese School , which became the most important in Italy during the century, including Duccio di Buoninsegna , Simone Martini , Lippo Memmi ...

  7. List of paintings by Rembrandt - Wikipedia

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    Companion piece to 62b Portrait of a Woman: 1632: Oil on panel: 90 x 68: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna: 62b: Rembrandt and (mainly) workshop. Companion piece to 62a Portrait of a Man, probably a Member of the Van Beresteyn Family: 1632: Oil on canvas: 112 x 89: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: 63a: Companion piece to 63b

  8. History painting - Wikipedia

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    In modern English, "historical painting" is sometimes used to describe the painting of scenes from history in its narrower sense, especially for 19th-century art, excluding religious, mythological, and allegorical subjects, which are included in the broader term "history painting", and before the 19th century were the most common subjects for ...

  9. Peter Paul Rubens - Wikipedia

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    He was also an art dealer and is known to have sold important art objects to George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham. [ 5 ] He was one of the last major artists to make consistent use of wooden panels as a support medium, even for very large works, but used canvas as well, especially when the work needed to be sent a long distance.