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Dmitry Grigoryevich Levitsky
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Born 1735 • Kyiv • Ukraine
Died April 4, 1822 (aged 87) • St. Petersburg • Russia
Notable Works “Legislator in the Temple of the Goddess of Justice”

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Dimitry Levitzky: portrait of Denis Diderot
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Valentin Aleksandrovich Serov
Russian artist
Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky
Russian artist
Orest Adamovich Kiprensky
Russian artist
Fyodor Stepanovich Rokotov
Russian artist
Simon Ushakov
Russian artist
Portrait of a Girl, oil painting by Alexey von Jawlensky, 1909; in the Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Alexey von Jawlensky
Russian painter
David Octavius Hill
Scottish painter
Joseph Severn
artist
Rembrandt: Self-Portrait
Rembrandt
Dutch artist
Leonardo da Vinci: self-portrait
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian artist, engineer, and scientist
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Spanish artist
Venus of Urbino by Titian
Titian
Italian painter
Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas
French artist
Peter Paul Rubens: self-portrait
Peter Paul Rubens
Flemish artist
Diego Velázquez
Diego Velázquez
Spanish painter
Burial of the Count de Orgaz
El Greco
Spanish artist
Paul Cézanne
Paul Cézanne
French artist
French artist Henri Matisse
Henri Matisse
French artist
Raphael: The Grand Duke's Madonna
Raphael
Italian painter and architect
Albrecht Dürer: Self-Portrait in Furred Coat
Albrecht Dürer
German artist

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