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Born June 13, 1539 • Zürich • Switzerland
Died March 17, 1591 (aged 51) • Nuremberg • Germany

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Hokusai
Japanese artist
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Still Life with Jug and African Bowl
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
German artist
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William Blake
English engraver, artist, and poet
Albrecht Dürer: Self-Portrait in Furred Coat
Albrecht Dürer
German artist
Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall
Belorussian-born French artist
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Lucas Cranach, the Elder
German painter
Hans Holbein the Younger: The Ambassadors
Hans Holbein the Younger
German painter
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Georges Rouault
French artist
David Hockney
David Hockney
British artist
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Jacques Villon
French painter
Baldung, Hans: Three Kings Altarpiece
Hans Baldung
German artist
Audubon, James John: Blue Jay
Robert Havell, Jr.
American painter
“Battle of Alexander at Issus,” detail of an oil painting on panel by Albrecht Altdorfer, 1529; in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich
Albrecht Altdorfer
German artist
“Still Life,” oil on canvas by Henri Fantin-Latour, 1866; in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Henri Fantin-Latour
French painter
Utamaro: Woman Wiping Sweat
Utamaro
Japanese artist
Okumura Masanobu: woodcut of Sugawara Michizane
Okumura Masanobu
Japanese artist
Campagnola, Domenico: The Assumption of the Virgin
Domenico Campagnola
Italian artist
Chodowiecki, Daniel: The Artist's Study
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German artist
Macbeth and Banquo encounter the Three Witches, illustration by John Gilbert for an edition of Shakespeare's works, 1858–60.
Sir John Gilbert
British painter
Everdingen, Allaert van: Swedish Landscape with a Waterfall
Allaert van Everdingen
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