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Can You Match These Lesser-Known Paintings to Their Artists?
"The Birth of Venus," tempera on canvas by Sandro Botticelli, c. 1485; in the Uffizi, Florence.
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Born September 23, 1897 • Belgium
Died July 20, 1994 (aged 96) • Veurne • Belgium
Notable Works “The Echo”
Movement / Style Surrealism

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Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso
Spanish artist
Duchamp, Marcel
Marcel Duchamp
French artist
Joan Miró
Joan Miró
Spanish artist
The artist and his icon
René Magritte
Belgian artist
Venus of Urbino by Titian
Titian
Italian painter
French artist Henri Matisse
Henri Matisse
French artist
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres: Self-portrait
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
French painter
Thomas Eakins, detail of a self-portrait, oil on canvas, 1902; in the National Academy of Design, New York.
Thomas Eakins
American painter
Édouard Manet: Self-Portrait
Édouard Manet
French painter
Gustave Courbet
Gustave Courbet
French painter
Lucas Cranach, the Elder
German painter
Félix Vallotton
Swiss-born French graphic artist and painter
Bonnard, Pierre: Place Clichy
Pierre Bonnard
French artist
Amedeo Modigliani.
Amedeo Modigliani
Italian artist
Piero di Cosimo: A Hunting Scene
Piero di Cosimo
Italian painter
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Still Life with Jug and African Bowl
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
German artist
Sir Matthew Smith
English painter
Armando Reverón
Venezuelan painter
Philip Pearlstein
American painter
“The Condemned in Hell,” fresco by Luca Signorelli, 1500–02; in the chapel of S. Brizio, Orvieto, Italy
Luca Signorelli
Italian painter

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