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| | Vermeer: The Art of Painting, Preface - NGA |
 | | The Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna is one of the world's greatest museums, housing unparalleled collections of paintings, decorative arts, sculpture, armor, and Greek and Egyptian antiquities. |
 | | At the museum's core lies a magnificent collection of Renaissance and baroque paintings, masterpieces by Raphael, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Titian, Caravaggio, Anthony van Dyck, and, above all, Peter Paul Rubens. |
 | | Their sumptuous works fill the huge central galleries of this imposing late-nineteenth-century building with images that impress the visitor with their enormous scale, their powerful religious and mythological narratives, and their forceful presentations of the physical, sensual, and spiritual aspects of human life. |
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