13 Artists Who Died Untimely Deaths: Quick Facts

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Ezekiel's Vision

Masaccio: Expulsion from Paradise

Painting Adoration of the Shepherds by Giorgione shows Mary, Joseph, and shepherds gathered around the infant Jesus at the entrance of a rocky cave, with a landscape in the background.

Raphael: School of Athens

Antoine Watteau: Fêtes Vénitiennes

Painting The Raft of the Medusa by Theodore Gericault shows a group of desperate shipwreck survivors crowded on a makeshift raft, some signaling for help, surrounded by turbulent sea.

Georges Seurat: A Sunday on La Grande Jatte—1884

Vincent van Gogh: The Bedroom

Head of a Woman by Amedeo Modigliani

Egon Schiele: Prone Young Woman with Black Stocking

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