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Born June 13, 1539 • Zürich • Switzerland
Died March 17, 1591 (aged 51) • Nürnberg • Germany

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Hokusai
Japanese artist
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Still Life with Jug and African Bowl
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
German artist
William Blake
William Blake
British writer and artist
Albrecht Dürer: Self-Portrait in Furred Coat
Albrecht Dürer
German artist
Marc Chagall
Marc Chagall
Belorussian-born French artist
Lucas Cranach, the Elder
German painter
Hans Holbein the Younger: The Ambassadors
Hans Holbein the Younger
German painter
Georges Rouault
French artist
David Hockney
David Hockney
British artist
Jacques Villon
French painter
Baldung, Hans: Three Kings Altarpiece
Hans Baldung
German artist
Audubon, James John: Blue Jay
Robert Havell, Jr.
American painter
“Battle of Alexander at Issus,” detail of an oil painting on panel by Albrecht Altdorfer, 1529; in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich
Albrecht Altdorfer
German artist
“Still Life,” oil on canvas by Henri Fantin-Latour, 1866; in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Henri Fantin-Latour
French painter
Utamaro: Woman Wiping Sweat
Utamaro
Japanese artist
Okumura Masanobu: woodcut of Sugawara Michizane
Okumura Masanobu
Japanese artist
Campagnola, Domenico: The Assumption of the Virgin
Domenico Campagnola
Italian artist
Chodowiecki, Daniel: The Artist's Study
Daniel Chodowiecki
German artist
Macbeth and Banquo encounter the Three Witches, illustration by John Gilbert for an edition of Shakespeare's works, 1858–60.
Sir John Gilbert
British painter
Everdingen, Allaert van: Swedish Landscape with a Waterfall
Allaert van Everdingen
Dutch painter

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