Which painter’s portrait of Louis XIV in his coronation costume set the image of what a state portrait should be: column and background landscape, glistening drapes, solemn pose, intense colors?
Which artist conveyed Futurism’s fascination for the energy of modern life with his own personal style, approaching pure abstraction and rendering motion by showing simultaneous aspects of a moving object?
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