Georges de La Tour

Georges de La Tour (13 March 1593 – 30 January 1652) was a French Baroque painter, who spent most of his working life in the Duchy of Lorraine, which was temporarily absorbed into France between 1641 and 1648. ^[1]

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Paintings by Georges de La Tour
People from Lorraine (duchy)

Albi Apostles

The Albi Apostles was a c.1620 set of thirteen oil-on-canvas paintings of Christ and his apostles by Georges de La Tour. Georges de La Tour and Albi Apostles are paintings by Georges de La Tour.

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Anthony Blunt

Anthony Frederick Blunt (26 September 1907 – 26 March 1983), styled Sir Anthony Blunt from 1956 to November 1979, was a leading British art historian and Soviet spy.

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Baroque

The Baroque is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from the early 17th century until the 1750s.

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Baroque painting

Baroque painting is the painting associated with the Baroque cultural movement.

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Caravaggio

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (also Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi da Caravaggio;,,; 29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610), known mononymously as Caravaggio, was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life.

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Chiaroscuro

In art, chiaroscuro is the use of strong contrasts between light and dark, usually bold contrasts affecting a whole composition.

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De Young Museum

The de Young Museum, formally the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, is a fine arts museum located in San Francisco, California.

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Duchy of Lorraine

The Duchy of Lorraine (Lorraine; Lothringen), originally Upper Lorraine, was a duchy now included in the larger present-day region of Lorraine in northeastern France.

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Führermuseum

The Führermuseum or Fuhrer-Museum (English: Leader's Museum), also referred to as the Linz art gallery, was an unrealized art museum within a cultural complex planned by Adolf Hitler for his hometown, the Austrian city of Linz, near his birthplace of Braunau.

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Fort Worth, Texas

Fort Worth is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Tarrant County, covering nearly into Denton, Johnson, Parker, and Wise counties.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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Franciscans

The Franciscans are a group of related mendicant religious orders of the Catholic Church.

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French people

The French people (lit) are a nation primarily located in Western Europe that share a common French culture, history, and language, identified with the country of France.

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Frick Collection

The Frick Collection (colloquially known as the Frick) is an art museum on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, New York, U.S. It was established in 1935 to preserve the art collection of the industrialist Henry Clay Frick.

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Gerard van Honthorst

Gerard van Honthorst (Dutch: Gerrit van Honthorst; 4 November 1592 – 27 April 1656) was a Dutch Golden Age painter who became known for his depiction of artificially lit scenes, eventually receiving the nickname Gherardo delle Notti ("Gerard of the Nights"). Georges de La Tour and Gerard van Honthorst are caravaggisti.

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Hendrick ter Brugghen

Hendrick Jansz ter Brugghen (or Terbrugghen) (1588 – 1 November 1629) was a Dutch painter of genre scenes and religious subjects. Georges de La Tour and Hendrick ter Brugghen are caravaggisti.

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Henry II, Duke of Lorraine

Henry II (French: Henri II; 8 November 1563 – 31 July 1624), known as "the Good (le Bon)", was Duke of Lorraine from 1608 until his death.

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Hermann Voss (art historian)

Hermann Voss (born July 30, 1884, in Lüneburg; died April 28, 1969, in Munich) was a German art historian and museum director appointed by Hitler to acquire art, much of it looted by Nazis, for Hitler's planned Führermuseum in Linz, Austria.

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Holy Roman Empire

The Holy Roman Empire, also known as the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation after 1512, was a polity in Central and Western Europe, usually headed by the Holy Roman Emperor.

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Hurdy-gurdy

The hurdy-gurdy is a string instrument that produces sound by a hand-crank-turned, rosined wheel rubbing against the strings.

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Jacques Bellange

Jacques Bellange (c. 1575–1616) was an artist and printmaker from the Duchy of Lorraine (then independent but now part of France) whose etchings and some drawings are his only securely identified works today. Georges de La Tour and Jacques Bellange are people from Lorraine (duchy).

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Job Mocked by his Wife

Job Mocked by his Wife is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French artist Georges de La Tour, produced at an unknown date between 1620 and 1650. Georges de La Tour and Job Mocked by his Wife are paintings by Georges de La Tour.

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Johannes Vermeer

Johannes Vermeer (see below; also known as Jan Vermeer; October 1632 – 15 December 1675) was a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life.

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Joseph the Carpenter

Joseph the Carpenter is an oil painting by Georges de La Tour created circa 1642. Georges de La Tour and Joseph the Carpenter are paintings by Georges de La Tour.

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Joseph Wright of Derby

Joseph Wright (3 September 1734 – 29 August 1797), styled Joseph Wright of Derby, was an English landscape and portrait painter.

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Jusepe de Ribera

Jusepe de Ribera (1591 – 1652) was a Spanish painter and printmaker. Georges de La Tour and Jusepe de Ribera are caravaggisti.

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Kimbell Art Museum

The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, hosts an art collection as well as traveling art exhibitions, educational programs and an extensive research library.

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List of Dutch painters

This is a list of Dutch painters who were born and/or were primarily active in the Netherlands.

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List of French artists

The following is a chronological list of French artists working in visual or plastic media (plus, for some artists of the 20th century, performance art).

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Los Angeles County Museum of Art

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is an art museum located on Wilshire Boulevard in the Miracle Mile vicinity of Los Angeles.

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Lunéville

Lunéville (German, obsolete: Lünstadt) is a commune in the northeastern French department of Meurthe-et-Moselle.

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Magdalene at a Mirror

Magdalene at a Mirror or The Repentant Magdalene is a c.1635-1640 oil-on-canvas painting by the French artist Georges de La Tour. Georges de La Tour and Magdalene at a Mirror are paintings by Georges de La Tour.

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Magdalene with the Smoking Flame

Magdalene with the Smoking Flame (also titled in French La Madeleine à la veilleuse, and La Madeleine à la flamme filante) is a c. 1640 oil-on-canvas depiction of Mary Magdalene by French Baroque painter Georges de La Tour. Georges de La Tour and Magdalene with the Smoking Flame are paintings by Georges de La Tour.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially referred to as the Met, is an encyclopedic art museum in New York City.

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Musée départemental d'Art ancien et contemporain

The Musée départemental d'Art ancien et contemporain is a museum in Épinal, Vosges, France.

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Museo del Prado

The Museo del Prado, officially known as Museo Nacional del Prado, is the main Spanish national art museum, located in central Madrid.

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Museum of Fine Arts of Rennes

The Museum of Fine Arts of Rennes (Musée des beaux-arts de Rennes) is a municipal museum of fine arts in the French city of Rennes, the capital of Brittany.

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Nancy, France

Nancy is the prefecture of the northeastern French department of Meurthe-et-Moselle.

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National Gallery of Art

The National Gallery of Art is an art museum in Washington, D.C., United States, located on the National Mall, between 3rd and 9th Streets, at Constitution Avenue NW.

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Palace of the Dukes of Lorraine

The Ducal Palace of Nancy (French: Palais ducal du Nancy) is a former princely residence in Nancy, France, which was home to the Dukes of Lorraine.

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Realism (arts)

Realism in the arts is generally the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding speculative and supernatural elements.

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Metz

The Diocese of Metz (Dioecesis Metensis; Diocèse de Metz) is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in France.

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Tenebrism

Tenebrism, from Italian ("dark, gloomy, mysterious"), also occasionally called dramatic illumination, is a style of painting using especially pronounced chiaroscuro, where there are violent contrasts of light and dark, and where darkness becomes a dominating feature of the image.

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The Card Sharp with the Ace of Diamonds

The Card Sharp with the Ace of Diamonds is an oil-on-canvas painting produced –1638 by the French artist Georges de La Tour. Georges de La Tour and the Card Sharp with the Ace of Diamonds are paintings by Georges de La Tour.

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The Fortune Teller (La Tour)

The Fortune Teller is an oil painting of circa 1630 by the French artist Georges de La Tour. Georges de La Tour and the Fortune Teller (La Tour) are paintings by Georges de La Tour.

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The Newborn Child

The Newborn Child is an oil-on-canvas painting created c. 1645–1648 by the French painter Georges de La Tour, now in the Museum of Fine Arts of Rennes in France. Georges de La Tour and the Newborn Child are paintings by Georges de La Tour.

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Tokyo Fuji Art Museum

was established by Daisaku Ikeda and opened near the Sōka University campus in Hachiōji, Tokyo, Japan, in 1983.

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Utrecht Caravaggism

Utrecht Caravaggism (Utrechtse caravaggisten) refers to the work of a group of artists who were from, or had studied in, the Dutch city of Utrecht, and during their stay in Rome during the early seventeenth century had become distinctly influenced by the art of Caravaggio. Georges de La Tour and Utrecht Caravaggism are caravaggisti.

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Vic-sur-Seille

Vic-sur-Seille (literally Vic on Seille) is a commune in the Moselle department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_de_La_Tour

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Paintings by Georges de La Tour

People from Lorraine (duchy)

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