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In Venice from 1540 to 1590, Titian, Tintoretto, and Veronese—to mention only the most famous—vied with each other in pictorial prowess. This artistic rivalry fostered a profusion of ideas and innovation that would make Venice a major hub of artistic creation.
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Watches, clocks, and measuring instruments, accompanied by portraits, archive documents and patent applications, shed light on the developments pioneered by Breguet from his early years in Paris to the period when he handed the business over to his son, Antoine-Louis.
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For the ancient Egyptians, the expression "the Gates of Heaven" referred both to the passageway into the afterlife, and to certain everyday objects. The exhibition entitled "The Gates of Heaven. Visions of the World in Ancient Egypt" features some 350 artifacts dating from the Old Kingdom to the Roman Period which it endeavors to place in their social, religious, and artistic context.
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This mini-site presents masterpieces by Mantegna including The Crucifixion, the Madonna della Vittoria, Saint Sebastian, and the paintings in Isabella d'Este's Studiolo... Paintings, drawings, engravings, manuscripts, and sculptures illustrate the career of this extraordinary artist—the chief proponent of Renaissance ideas in northern Italy. This site also explores the influences behind his work, and the legacy he left to succeeding generations of artists.
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This mini-site explores the origins and influence of the ancient city of Babylon, and the way in which the myth grew out of historical reality. This new approach to the ancient city is based on research that has made it possible to trace a history that is no longer dependent on biblical or late classical sources.
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