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This listing if for THREE (3) Authentic Prints from the Masters in the Prague National Gallery. These are NOT posters, and these are NOT copies. These are Original Vintage Prints from Czechoslovakia, printed from plates in 1960, and each one comes with its own Certificate of Authenticity. Give one as a most MEMORABLE gift for a friend or loved one, or as an amazing addition to your own private art collection. THREE FOR THE PRICE OF ONE!!! Remember, FREE Insured Shipping to Anywhere in the World. HERE'S WHAT YOU GET: (1) COTTAGE DANCERS. By Adriaen van Ostade. Painter and engraver, born in Haarlem, The Netherlands. He was a pupil of Frans Hals, and his use of chiaroscuro shows the influence of Rembrandt. His subjects are taken mostly from everyday life, for example tavern scenes, farmyards, markets, and village greens. His Alchemist is in the National Gallery. His brother Isaak (162149) treated similar subjects, but excelled at winter scenes and landscapes. YOU ALSO GET: (2) SERENADE. By Jan Steen. Painter, born in Leyden, W Netherlands. He joined the Leyden guild of painters in 1648, lived in The Hague until 1654, then became a brewer at Delft and an innkeeper at Leyden. His best works were genre pictures of social and domestic scenes depicting the everyday life of ordinary folk, as in The Music Lesson (National Gallery, London). YOU ALSO GET: (3) STILL LIFE WITH PEWTER JUG. By Willem Claesz Heda. The history of the National Gallery in Prague dates back to the 18th century. It began on February 5, 1796, when a group of prominent representatives of Bohemian patriotic aristocracy and Enlightened middle-class intellectuals decided to elevate what they called "debased artistic taste" of the local population. Their Society of Patriotic Friends of Arts founded two important institutions which had not existed in Prague to date: the Academy of Arts and a picture gallery for the general public. The Picture Gallery of the Society of Patriotic Friends of Arts became a direct predecessor of the National Gallery in Prague. In 1902, another significant institution was established - the Modern Gallery of the Kingdom of Bohemia - a private foundation of Emperor Franz Josef I. The Modern Gallery began to amass a collection of the twentieth-century Czech art. In 1918, the Picture Gallery of the Society of Patriotic Friends of Arts became a central collection of newly formed Czechoslovakia. Vincenc Kramář who was appointed its director in 1919 soon transformed the Picture Gallery into a relatively modern and professionally managed art institution. In the painful war year 1942, the collections of the abolished Modern Gallery came under the control of the National Gallery (officially the Gallery of Bohemia and Moravia). This dramatic development reflects the National Gallery's primary principle - elevation of the nation's s pirit through art. This ideal is seen as a basis of the National Gallery's work even today. Thank you.
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