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    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...
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    Georges Washington Louis Gilbert de La Fayette (24 December 1779 – 29 November 1849) was the son of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, the French...
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  • Governor of Acadia Georges de La Tour (1593–1652), French Baroque painter Frances de la Tour (born 1944), English actress House of La Tour d'Auvergne, French...
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    Georges de La Tour, who painted many works illuminated with a single candle, Trophime Bigot, Gerrit van Honthorst, and Rembrandt. In Flanders Adam de...
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    Magdalene with the Smoking Flame (category Paintings by Georges de La Tour)
    painter Georges de La Tour. Two versions of this painting exist, one in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the other in the Louvre Museum (La Madeleine...
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  • what Georges Vigarello called "the image of a France united by its earth." The image had been started by the 1877 travel/school book Le Tour de la France...
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    1615 Marcantonio Bassetti -c.1620 attributed to Georges de La Tour, early 1630s Georges de La Tour 1650 Felice Ficherelli -1650 Vicente López y Portaña...
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    Frances J. de Lautour (born 30 July 1944), better known as Frances de la Tour, is an English actress. She is known for her role as Miss Ruth Jones in the...
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    artist Georges de La Tour. The work was uncovered in about 1960 and purchased that year by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. François Georges Pariset...
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    variants made by other painters have survived, with artists such as Georges de La Tour painting their own appreciations of the theme. Whether through Costantino...
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    Madeleine de La Tour d'Auvergne (1498 – 28 April 1519) was a younger daughter of Jean III de La Tour (1467– 28 March 1501), Count of Auvergne and Lauraguais...
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    Gardner Museum in 1990. Georges de La Tour, Magdalene with the Smoking Flame, c. 1640, Los Angeles County Museum of Art Georges de La Tour, Joseph the Carpenter...
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    Chiaroscuro (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    include Leonardo da Vinci, Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Goya, and Georges de La Tour. The term chiaroscuro originated during the Renaissance as drawing...
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    Georges de la Trémoille (c. 1382 –6 May 1446) was Count of Guînes from 1398 to 1446 and Grand Chamberlain of France to King Charles VII of France. He...
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    artist Georges de La Tour. It is now in the Louvre, which bought it in 1972. Though its commissioner is unknown, it is signed Georgius De La Tour fecit...
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    Sebastian Tended by Saint Irene is a c.1649 oil-on-canvas painting by Georges de La Tour. It is one of the largest known paintings by the artist and his most...
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  • Andy de la Tour (born 1948) is an English actor and screenwriter. In films he appeared in Plenty, Notting Hill, the Roman Polanski's Oliver Twist, 44 Inch...
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    oil-on-canvas painting executed ca. 1630–1635 by the French artist Georges de La Tour. He produced it for the abbey of Saint Antoine a Viennois, but it...
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    La Défense (French: [la de.fɑ̃s]) is a major business district in France, located 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) west of the city limits of Paris. It is part of...
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    painters who blended Italian mannerism with a love of genre scenes were Georges de La Tour, Simon Vouet, and the Le Nain brothers. The influence of the painters...
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    the Shepherds is a 1644 oil-on-canvas painting by the French artist Georges de La Tour. It is now in the Louvre Museum, in Paris, which purchased it in 1926...
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  • Titian: Diana and Callisto (1556–1559) Georges de La Tour: The Dream of St. Joseph (c. 1628–1645) Georges de La Tour: The Fortune Teller (c. 1620–1621) William...
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    Other Baroque artists like Georges de La Tour, Orazio Gentileschi, and the Spanish trio of Diego Velazquez, Francisco de Zurbarán, and Carlo Saraceni...
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    Denial of Saint Peter is a 1650 painting of the Denial of Peter by Georges de La Tour, possibly with some assistance from the painter's son Étienne. It...
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    17th century, when it was painted by Georges de La Tour at least twice, Trophime Bigot (four times), Jusepe de Ribera twice, Hendrick ter Brugghen (in...
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  • inspiration for daytime scenes and Georges de La Tour as inspiration for the nighttime scenes. Georges de La Tour's use of central light sources in his...
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    Victor Koulbak (born 1946) Georges Lacombe (1868–1916) Pierre Laffillé (1938–2011) Louis Lafitte (1770–1828) Antonio de La Gándara (1861–1917) Pierre...
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    Magdalene, his piece may have inspired Georges de La Tour to produce several versions of the subject. De la Tour dramatically changed the angle of his...
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    on paintings of human card-players by such artists as Caravaggio, Georges de La Tour, and Paul Cézanne. On February 15, 2005, the originals of A Bold Bluff...
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    Magdalene with Two Flames (category Paintings by Georges de La Tour)
    undated oil-on-canvas painting created c.1640 by the French painter Georges de La Tour. In 1978 Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman gave it to the Metropolitan...
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