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  • “The Miraculous Draft of Fishes,” tempera on panel by Konrad Witz, 1444; in the Museum of Art and History, Geneva
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    The Heilsspiegel altarpiece (c. 1435; now dispersed), generally agreed to be his earliest surviving work, displays numerous monumental, sculpturelike figures in small, bare rooms. In this altarpiece, such figures as the personification of “The Synagogue” are placed diagonally to the picture-plane in a simple, graceful pose,…

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