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| Francesco Stringa Allegorical Still-life with Portrait bust of Francesco I d'Este, Duke of Modena, by Gianlorenzo Bernini ca. 1680 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Gabriël Metsu Portrait of Lucia Wijbrants 1667 oil on panel Minneapolis Institute of Art |
These beautifully-preserved and florid 17th-century paintings are reproduced from museum collections in the one-time hugely prosperous industrial cities dotted around the Great Lakes in the middle of the U.S. – namely, Minneapolis, Toledo, Indianapolis, Detroit, Cincinnati, and Chicago. Tycoons imported European canvases from the prestigious past to decorate their late-19th and early-20th century mansions, eventually bequeathing many very good pictures to the new public culture-palaces that had risen to ornament and substantiate their cities.
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| Anthony van Dyck Betrayal of Christ ca. 1630 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Peter Paul Rubens Union of England and Scotland 1633-34 oil on panel Minneapolis Institute of Art |
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| Peter Paul Rubens Crowning of St Catherine 1631 oil on canvas Toledo Museum of Art |
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| Mattia Preti Feast of Herod ca. 1656-61 oil on canvas Toledo Museum of Art |
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| Jan Miense Molenaer Allegory of Vanity 1633 oil on canvas Toledo Museum of Art |
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| Jan Miense Molenaer Battle between Carnival and Lent ca. 1633-34 oil on panel Indianapolis Museum of Art |
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| Jusepe de Ribera Aristotle 1632 oil on canvas Indianapolis Museum of Art |
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| Giovanni Francesco Romanelli Finding of Moses 1656-67 oil on canvas Indianapolis Museum of Art |
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| Frans Pourbus the Younger Portrait of Giovanni Battista Marino, poet and early patron of Nicolas Poussin ca. 1621 oil on canvas Detroit Institute of Arts |
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| Anthony van Dyck Portrait of a military commander of the Spinola family ca. 1621-27 oil on canvas Cincinnati Art Museum |
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| Rembrandt Old man wearing a gold chain 1631 oil on panel Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Cecco del Caravaggio The Resurrection ca. 1619-20 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |