Gallery: twelve painters on one reel

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12 painters, 44 paintings. Hover the film to look closer, drag it to rewind.

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A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, 1884, by Georges Seurat: Parisians resting and strolling on a sunny riverbank

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44 paintings by 12 painters. Every image here is in the public domain, from the Art Institute of Chicago (CC0).

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