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Members of the public view artwork by Damien Hirst entitled: The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living - in the Tate Modern art gallery on April 2, 2012 in London, England. (see notes) (1991) Tiger shark, glass, steel

Vile or Visionary?: 11 Art Controversies of the Last Four Centuries

Sculpture of woman before restoration (left) and after restoration on the exterior of an office building in Palencia, Spain. (art restoration)

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In this aerial photo, structures are damaged and destroyed October 15, 2005 in Balakot, Pakistan. It is estimated that 90% of the city of Balakot was leveled by the earthquake. The death toll in the 7.6 magnitude earthquake that struck northern Pakistan on October 8, 2005 is believed to be 38,000 with at least 1,300 more dead in Indian Kashmir. SEE CONTENT NOTES.

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Shah Jahan. Taj Mahal. Mughal architecture. Emperor Shah Jahan fifth Mughal Emperor (reigned 1628-1658) India, Himachal Pradesh, Basohli or Jammu and Kashmir, Mankot, circa 1690 Drawings; Opaque watercolor, gold, and ink on paper (see notes)

6 Important Mughal Emperors

earthquake. Heavily damaged school in the town of Yingxiu after a major earthquake struck China's Sichuan Province on May 12, 2008.

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Born	February 29, 1864 • Switzerland
Died	November 6, 1930 (aged 66) • Bern • Switzerland
Movement / Style	art brut • outsider art

Oskar Kokoschka

Austrian painter and writer

Paul Klee

Swiss-German artist

Constant, detail of an oil painting by Hercule des Roches, c. 1830; in the Musée Carnavalet, Paris

Benjamin Constant

French author

Max Frisch

Swiss author

Carl Spitteler

Swiss poet

Gottfried Keller

Swiss author

Stefano Franscini

Swiss statesman

Fuseli, Henry: The Three Witches Appearing to Macbeth and Banquo

Henry Fuseli

Swiss-born painter

Peter Bichsel

Swiss author

Robert Walser

Swiss writer

Jakob Schaffner

Swiss writer

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Swiss writer

Heinrich Federer

Swiss writer

Albert Steffen

Swiss writer

Peider Lansel

Romansh poet

Jost Amman

German engraver

Urs Graf

Swiss artist

Adolf Frey

Swiss writer and historian

Meinrad Inglin

Swiss author

Henri Frédéric Amiel

Swiss writer

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