Walter Jacob, Das Jüngste Gericht ( The Last Judgement ), 1920

Walter Jacob

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Das jüngste Gericht ( The Last Judgement), as depicted by Dresden Secession artist Walter Jacob is a powerful contemporary updating of a traditional image, complete with a bold portrait of Dix on the left, yanking a woman by the hair as she resists being...

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Otto Dix, Die Skatspieler ( The Skat Players ), 1920

Otto Dix

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Dix's Die Skatspieler ( The Skat Players ) of 1920 shows three mutilated veterans, former officers, playing cards in a gaslit pub. So deformed are they by their injuries that they are forced to play with prophetic hands or with their mouths or feet. Little...

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MMaxi07Urbain

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Fabrice

MMaxi07Urbain

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Standing boy with long coat. Hands raised to the head. 1910 Albertina, Vienna

egon schiele

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Egon Schiele

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Half Grown Peasent Girl, 1912 Albertina, Vienna

egon schiele

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Egon Schiele

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Van Dyck

Van Dyck

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Lord Jonh Stuart, and his Brother Lord Bernard Stuart c. 1638

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Van Dyck

Van Dyck

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George, Lord Digby and William, Lord Russel c. 1637, or earlier Aristocratic portraiture operated broadly within the same parameters as Royal portraiture. Just as the monarch had reason to announce his humanity as well as his authority, aristocracy had...

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Van Dyck

Van Dyck

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Sir Anthony (Anton) van Dyck (22 March 1599 – 9 December 1641) was a Flemish artist who became the leading court painter in England. He is most famous for his portraits of royalty, painted with a preternatural virtuosity which set the standard for elegance...

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Peter Paul Rubens

Peter Paul Rubens

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The Deposition, 1611 central piece in triptych Painting that would emulate Titian attempts to catch to catch the sensational aspects of things. What painting, as an art, shares with objects of sensation is visibility ; and vision is in the first instance...

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