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And his early landscapes, so much less vibrant and far darker than the van Gogh we're used to seeing:
Soon enough he started to find his own style and in 1470 announced himself in the competitive world of Florentine art with this painting, called Fortitude.
Thereafter he was never short of commissions, whether for churches or wealthy patrons, such as the Medici family.
The Catholic Church responded to Protestantism in several ways, not least with the creation of the Roman Inquisition in 1542, which was intended to root out and destroy heresy in Italy.
But they also started paying more attention to art as a religious and political force...
And he never wrote anything down.
What we know about Socrates' ideas comes entirely from other people, especially his students.
Foremost among them was Plato, who subsequently influenced almost all of western philosophy.
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, painted by Pablo Picasso in 1907, is probably the most influential work of modern art.
But he didn't come up with it all himself.
Picasso borrowed from the art of West Africa, ancient Iberian sculpture, an obscure Medieval architect, and El Greco...
Self-portrait as a flayed skin, from The Last Judgment fresco in the Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo (1541)
5. The Drowned Man's Ghost Tries to Claim a New Victim for the Sea by Thorvald Niss (c.1880)