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Spiritual Light

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English painter J.M.W. Turner (1775–1851) has been called the ‘painter of light’. He developed new artistic techniques to capture natural phenomena, evoking t..

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Sublime Light

Similarity: 77%

Scientific Light

Similarity: 75%

Light Impressions

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The Creation of Light

1826
Similarity: 72%

Expanded Light

Similarity: 72%

Light and Colour

Similarity: 72%

Interior Light

Similarity: 70%

School of Light

Similarity: 69%

Natural Light

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Light and dark

United States, 1954
Similarity: 67%

Substantial shadows

Austria, 1987
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Light and Colour (Goethe’s Theory) - the Morning after the Deluge - Moses Writing the Book of Genesis

1843
Similarity: 64%

Stained glass: painting with light

United States, 1974
Similarity: 64%

Out of the dark

United Kingdom, 1951
Similarity: 64%

Light Music

1975
Similarity: 64%

Painting shadows

United States, 1957
Similarity: 63%

Artificial illuminations

United States, 1997
Similarity: 63%

Gothic art

United States, 1961
Similarity: 63%
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