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696 For the Love of Guidebooks; The Gulf; Greatest Art In Europe

Travel with Rick Steves

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Is There a Crusade?

Alphonse Muka, who did those art nouveau maidens? Oh, yes. Those beautiful willowy maidens with the flowing hair. I would call them bewitching. How about slice of life? We like to use that word. Slice of life. Jan Steen, who does those scenes of Dutch families? Yeah. He's kind of, to me, an example of that new kind of market where you don't have big rich nobles, and aristocrats, and popes, and kings, and emperors paying for the art. But he's kind of lying in that genre. Here's another word, colossal. What about bombastic?

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