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Picasso invented Cubism, captured the horror of warfare, and found freedom in abstraction.
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Epic, melodramatic canvases, images that stir the emotions, and an embrace of nature.
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Gustav Klimt, with paintings like “The Kiss” captured a simmering hedonism in Vienna.
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Auguste Rodin brought Impressionism to stone with iconic statues like “The Thinker.”
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Hals, Steen, Vermeer painted slices of regular life and group portraits of city bigwigs.
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Rubens painted mythic battles, Catholic miracles, bloody hunts, and “Rubenesque” women.
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Rococo art featured aristocrats playing in their Baroque palaces and bucolic backyards.
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Versailles, with its heavenly painted ceilings, was the ultimate Baroque palace.
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These painters brought art from medieval two-dimensional to more life-like 3-D.
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Florence, home of the Renaissance, was also home to three early artistic heroes.
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Oil paints freed artists like Jan van Eyck, Raphael, and Leonardo to raise the bar.
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Albrecht Dürer’s meticulous attention to detail was ideal for his work as an engraver.
