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explores the paintings (and accompanying texts) to holdings at the National Gallery of Art. The Gallery states that "the 15th and 16th centuries saw the rise of capitalism and a burgeoning middle class, the creation of modern nation states, and the upheaval of the Protestant Reformation. For artists, an innovation of equally far-reaching importance was the perfection of oil paints in the Low Countries, which allowed northern painters to depict the world with unprecedented precision. (National Gallery of Art)
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