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Born 1583 • Amsterdam • Netherlands
Buried April 4, 1633 • Amsterdam • Netherlands

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Pieter Lastman: Odysseus and Nausicaa
Sacrifice of Manoah, oil on wood panel by Pieter Lastman, 1624. 72.3 × 52.6 cm.
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Rembrandt: Self-Portrait
Rembrandt
Dutch artist
Patinir, Joachim
Joachim Patinir
Flemish painter
Geertgen tot Sint Jans: John the Baptist in the Wilderness
Geertgen tot Sint Jans
Netherlandish painter
Self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci drawn in red chalk, showing an elderly man with long hair and a flowing beard, with a serious, contemplative expression.
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian artist, engineer, and scientist
Peter Paul Rubens: self-portrait
Peter Paul Rubens
Flemish artist
Nicolas Poussin: Adoration of the Golden Calf
Nicolas Poussin
French painter
Albrecht Dürer: Self-Portrait in Furred Coat
Albrecht Dürer
German artist
Sesshū: Landscape of Four Seasons
Sesshū
Japanese artist
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Lucas Cranach, the Elder
German painter
Bellini, Giovanni: Saint Jerome Reading
Giovanni Bellini
Italian painter
The Adoration of the Shepherds by Giorgione
Giorgione
Italian painter
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Georges Rouault
French artist
Baptism of Christ
Masolino
Italian painter
The Annunciation to the Shepherds, oil on canvas by Jacopo Bassano, probably 1555/1560; in the Samuel H. Kress Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 106.1 × 82.6 cm.
Jacopo Bassano
Italian painter
Bourdon, Sébastien: Bacchus Comforting the Abandoned Ariadne
Sébastien Bourdon
French painter
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Hasegawa Tōhaku
Japanese painter
“Madonna and Child,” oil on canvas by Alesso Baldovinetti, c. 1465; in the Louvre, Paris
Alessio Baldovinetti
Italian painter
Self-Portrait with the Image of Death, oil on canvas by Lovis Corinth, 1896; in the Stadtische Galerie in Lembachhaus, Munich, Germany.
Lovis Corinth
German painter
“The Miraculous Draft of Fishes,” tempera on panel by Konrad Witz, 1444; in the Museum of Art and History, Geneva
Konrad Witz
German 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

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