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Born c.1430 • Messina • Italy
Died c.February 19, 1479 • Messina • Italy
Notable Works “Portrait of a Condottiere” • “Portrait of a Man” • “St. Jerome in His Study” • “St. Sebastian”

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Netherlandish painter
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Jan van Eyck
Netherlandish painter
Venus of Urbino by Titian
Titian
Italian painter
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Italian artist
Bellini, Giovanni: Saint Jerome Reading
Giovanni Bellini
Italian painter
The Adoration of the Shepherds by Giorgione
Giorgione
Italian painter
The Annunciation to the Shepherds, oil on canvas by Jacopo Bassano, probably 1555/1560; in the Samuel H. Kress Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 106.1 × 82.6 cm.
Jacopo Bassano
Italian painter
Paris Bordone
Italian painter
“Pietà,” panel painting by Sebastiano del Piombo, c. 1517; in the Civic Museum, Viterbo, Italy
Sebastiano del Piombo
Italian painter
Alvise Vivarini
Italian painter
Peter Paul Rubens: self-portrait
Peter Paul Rubens
Flemish artist
Burial of the Count de Orgaz
El Greco
Spanish artist
van Dyck, Anthony
Anthony van Dyck
Flemish painter
Rogier van der Weyden
Netherlandish painter
Quentin Massys
Flemish artist
Gossart, Jan: Descent from the Cross
Jan Gossart
Netherlandish painter
Joos van Cleve: Death of the Virgin
Joos van Cleve
Netherlandish painter
Crayer, Caspar de: The Descent from the Cross
Caspar de Crayer
Flemish painter
Orley, Bernard van: Banquet of the Children of Job
Bernard van Orley
Flemish painter
Bertholet Flémalle
Flemish painter

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