Georges de La Tour - Magdalena Fabius

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Georges de La Tour - Büßende Maria Magdalena (Magdalena Fabius)
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Georges de La Tour (March 13, 1593, Vic-sur-Seille, Moselle January 30, 1652, Lunéville) was a painter, who spent most of his working life in the Duchy of Lorraine, which became part of France the year before his death. He painted mostly religious scenes lit by candlelight, and after centuries of posthumous obscurity became one of the most highly regarded of French 17th century artists in the 21th century....... He is best known for the nocturnal light effects which he developed much further than his artistic predecessors had done, and transferred their use in the genre subjects in the paintings of the Dutch Caravaggisti to religious painting in his....
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