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German Renaissance Master Albrecht Altdorfer Pioneered Landscape Painting. A Work Previously Unknown to Scholars Just Emerged After 70 Years in a Private Collection

Painted around 1520, the newly identified painting is one of only three pure landscapes painted in oil by the artist. It depicts a lush forest scene with castle ruins and a rainbow emerging from stormy skies

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