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The painting depicts the view from the chalk cliffs of the Stubbenkammer, at that time one of the most famous lookout points on the island. It is frequently but incorrectly believed that the Wissower Klinken outcrops in particular were a model for the painting; however, these did not exist at the ti...

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The Four Seasons is the last set of four oil canvases painted by Poussin between the years of 1660 and 1664, for the son of the Cardinal Richelieu, Duc de Richelieu. They were created during Poussin’s last years of life, during which he suffered hand tremors, which made the execution of the painting...

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Chase painted Seaside Flowers in Shinnecock, Long Island, where he taught art during the summer from 1892 to 1902. Chase encouraged his students to find beauty in landscapes that at first glance seem unremarkable, which he has done here. By breaking up the swath of scrubby bushes and grass with a di...

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Like his contemporaries, Matisse was aware of the liberating aesthetic and picture making influence of Japanese art on his predecessors from the impressionists to the postimpressionists. The following painting, The goldfish 1912, is possibly inspired by the many oriental images of goldfish that he w...

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Following the war of the Jülich (Gulick) succession and the siege of the town in 1609-14, the next investment of Jülich, a strategically important centre some 25 kilometres north-east of Aachen, lasted some five months during the exceptionally cold winter of 1621/22.10 From the viewpoint of the Eigh...

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