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The Judgment of Paris by Claude Lorrain

https://www.nga.gov/artworks/51095-judgment-paris

Like his compatriot Nicolas Poussin, Claude Lorrain forged his career in Rome. Claude’s vision of the Roman countryside is grounded in a careful observation of nature, but he transformed the landscape into a timeless, idealized world through his masterful rendering of sunlight and strict structuring of space.
He braces a long staff in his far hand, and raises his right hand, closer to us,

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La Méditerranée by Aristide Maillol

https://www.nga.gov/artworks/93096-la-mediterranee

At the beginning of the twentieth century, as he turned from a career as a painter and a graphic and tapestry designer to concentrate on sculpture, Aristide Maillol was shaping what would become the leitmotif of his career. The subject that inspired him was the female nude, carefully observed but transmuted by underlying geometric forms into a kind of architecture, evoking the timeless rather than the individual.
She holds her left hand, to our right, to that cheek so the elbow is close to the

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