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Facts

Also Known As Occupant of the First Seat at T’ien-t’ung • Bikeisai • Oda • Unkoku • Tōyō
Born 1420 • Japan
Died August 26, 1506 (aged 86) • Masuda • Japan

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Sesshū: Landscape of Four Seasons
Sesshū: Landscape
Sesshū: View of Amanohashidate
Winter Landscape
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Bunsei
Japanese artist
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Kanō Motonobu
Japanese painter
Ma Yuan: Scholar by a Waterfall
Ma Yuan
Chinese painter
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Hasegawa Tōhaku
Japanese painter
Landscape of the Four Seasons, one of a pair of sixfold screens by Sesson Shūkei, ink and light colours on paper, 16th century; in the Art Institute of Chicago. 155.9 × 338.4 cm.
Sesson Shūkei
Japanese painter
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Unkoku Tōgan
Japanese painter
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Taikō Josetsu
Japanese painter
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Soga Chokuan
Japanese painter
Ogata Kōrin: Irises at Yatsuhashi (Eight Bridges)
Ogata Kōrin
Japanese artist
Sōtatsu: Genji monogatari: Miotsukushi
Sōtatsu
Japanese artist
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Takuma Shōga, original name Takuma Tamemoto
Japanese painter
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Kanō Naonobu
Japanese painter
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Tanomura Chikuden
Japanese painter
Portrait of Daidō Ichii by Kichizan with a laudatory inscription by Shōkai Reiken (not reproduced here), hanging scroll, ink on paper; in the Nara National Museum, Japan
Kichizan
Japanese painter
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Shingei
Japanese artist
Rembrandt: Self-Portrait
Rembrandt
Dutch artist
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
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Caravaggio: The Conversion of St. Paul (second version)
Caravaggio
Italian painter
Peter Paul Rubens: self-portrait
Peter Paul Rubens
Flemish artist
Vincent van Gogh: Self-Portrait
Vincent van Gogh
Dutch painter

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