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Jul 2016
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Jan Brueghel and his Views of Italian Ru...

OXFORD UNIVERSITY
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This lecture forms part of a series entitled "Antiquity After Antiquity" and is for first year Undergraduate History of Art students. It was delivered at the University of Oxford History of Art Department. An Van Camp (Curator of Northern European Art at the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology) explores the practice of Netherlandish artists travelling t ... Show More
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