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7. Artist: Raphael (1483 – 1520)

Most known painting: Wedding of the Virgin





Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form and ease of composition and for its visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. The Marriage of the Virgin, also known as Lo Sposalizio, was completed in 1504 for a Franciscan church in Città di Castello, the painting depicts a marriage ceremony between Mary and Joseph. It is currently located in Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan.

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8. Artist: Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919)

Most known painting: Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette





Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. Bal du moulin de la Galette was painted in 1876 depicts a typical Sunday afternoon at Moulin de la Galette in the district of Montmartre in Paris. It is housed at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris and is one of Impressionism's most celebrated masterpieces.

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9. Artist: Jan Vermeer (1632 – 1675)

Most known painting: Girl With Pearl Earrings





Johannes, Jan or Johan Vermeer was a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. The painting Girl with a Pearl Earring is one of Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer's masterworks and, as the name implies, uses a pearl earring for a focal point. The image is a tronie, the Dutch 17th-century description of a ‘head’ that was not meant to be a portrait. It has been in the collection of the Mauritshuis gallery in The Hague since 1902.

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10. Artist: Claude Monet (1840 – 1926)

Most known painting: Le Bassin Aux Nymphéas





Oscar-Claude Monet was a founder of French Impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. The term "Impressionism" is derived from the title of his painting Impression, soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise. The painting depict Monet's flower garden at Giverny and is the main focus of Monet's artistic production during the last thirty years of his life. Many of the works were painted while Monet suffered from cataracts. Since 2008, the painting has been in the possession of a private collector.