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Painter of light: 250 years of William Turner
One of the greatest Romantic painters, he captured the grandeur of nature on canvas as magnificently as the power of machines ...
No one took greater imaginative leaps and risks than Turner – he’s Britain’s greatest artist
It’s 250 years since the birth of this prodigious son of a barber and a wigmaker, but his weather-obsessed, sea-enamoured ...
The Fighting Temeraire: Why JMW Turner's greatest painting is so misunderstood
As museums around the world celebrate the 250th birthday of JMW Turner, it's time to reappraise his beloved and celebrated ...
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Forensic Astronomer Solves Fine Arts Puzzles
After a field trip to view Yosemite's cliffs and using clues from the photograph—the amount of snow on the ground ... three other Munch paintings. After that, Claude Monet's Impression, Sunrise.
This Claude Monet Painting of Poplar Trees May Fetch up to $50 Million at Auction
Claude Monet's painting 'Peupliers au bord de l’Epte, crépuscule' (1891) could fetch up to $50 million in a Christie's New ...
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From Monet to Renoir, the 10 most iconic Impressionist paintings you need to see at least once in your life
From Claude Monet to Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Edgar Degas, Impressionism has left a legacy of legendary canvases you can see ...
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Later in Life, Claude Monet Obsessed Over Water Lilies. His Paintings of Them Were Some of His Greatest Masterpieces
to visit the home of artist Claude Monet. The painter wore “a suit made of some tweedy material in a beige check, a blue pleated silk shirt, a hat of tawny suede, and high-cut shoes of reddish ...