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Rick observes Easter across Europe, from Carnival through Lent to Easter Sunday

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Rick Steves travels back a century to learn how fascism rose and then fell in Europe

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Along the Loire River Valley, the French countryside is studded with evocative châteaux.

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Rick Steves' Europe visits Western Turkey

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Preview our new program on Central Turkey.

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With the large Cubist-inspired painting, Picasso put a human face on “collateral damage.”

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With heavy outlines and brilliant colors, Chagall celebrated nature and its creator.

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Expressionism captured emotions, trauma, and cynicism with distorted and garish works.

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Surrealists explored the subconscious painting everyday images in jarring juxtapositions.

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Picasso invented Cubism, captured the horror of warfare, and found freedom in abstraction.

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The art of Communism diligently promoted the heroic symbols of the state as propaganda.

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Gritty realism, stark lighting, and drama gave Caravaggio’s art an emotional punch.