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Bartoldi - A Young Artist With a Big Head

When Bartoldi was 21, he took off to be inspired by the Suez Canal. He made hundreds of paintings and used a new camera called calitypes that only took two minutes to expose. The challenge common to artists throughout history is to get someone to pay for it.

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