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| | Italian art naive-Scalvini Italian paintings 3 (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | A large number of naive painters were discovered, thanks in substantial part to Dr Louis Gans, the art historian. |
 | | The generation of naive artists discovered by Dr Louis Gans (including Pieter Hagoort, Leo Neervoort, Jentje van der Sloot), is almost gone today, but those men were exceptional, serving as examples for a definition of naive art, which was often mistakenly associated with technical imperfection. |
 | | Furthermore, the cultural vitality of the city probably stimulated the exceptional precociousness of the young artist, who, even at the beginning of the 16th century, when he was scarcely 17 years old, already displayed an extraordinary talent. |
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