Essential figures in art and culture.
The life, travels, court portraits and legacy of Anthony van Dyck, the Flemish painter whose images of Charles I reshaped British portraiture.
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The life, Vienna Secession, Golden Phase and legacy of Gustav Klimt, whose portraits and allegories united sensual figures with radical ornament.
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The life, workshop methods, major paintings and legacy of Tintoretto, whose diagonal spaces and urgent light transformed Venetian Renaissance art.
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Charles Dickens transformed childhood hardship, urban observation and comic invention into novels that exposed inequality and reshaped popular literature.
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