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Georges de La Tour was a French Baroque painter, who spent most of his working life in the Duchy of Lorraine, which was temporarily absorbed into France between 1641 and 1648. He painted mostly religious chiaroscuro scenes lit by candlelight.
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culture · French painter (1593–1652) · painter · architectural drafter · also Georges de La Tour, Georges du Mesnil De La Tour, Georges du Mesnil de La Tour, Dumesnil La Tour, Claude du Menil De La Tour, Claude du Menil de La Tour
Born 13 March 1593 · Died 30 January 1652 · Q203371
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By Hermann Voss, a German art historian who would later become head of Hitler's Führermuseum; some of La Tour's work had in fact been confused with Vermeer, when the Dutch artist underwent his own rediscovery in the nine
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Died 1652-01-30.
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Born 1593-03-13.
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