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Entry of Christ into Jerusalem Anthony van Dyck, 1617
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Entry of Christ into Jerusalem

Anthony van Dyck Β· 1617

Why it's great

Christ rides a donkey into the city, with crowds laying palm branches and cloaks on the road. Anthony van Dyck painted it in about 1617, when he was about 18 years old.

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About the artist

Anthony van Dyck

1599–1641 Β· born in Antwerp Β· died in Blackfriars

Anthony van Dyck was a Flemish painter born in Antwerp in 1599. He was Rubens's most gifted assistant, traveled to Italy, and in 1632 moved to London as court painter to King Charles I, where he set the style for English portraits. He died in London in 1641 at the age of 42.

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