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Henri Rousseau was a self-taught painter who captured the imagination of the later Surrealists with his fantastical world of dark forests inhabited by strange animals and exotic people.

The Parisian Surrealists between the First and Second World Wars were notoriously patronizing to women artists, putting them on pedestals and treating them as muses but not taking them seriously as artists.

Raphael is sometimes said to have combined the grace of Leonardo with the power of Michelangelo into a new synthesis, thus bringing the High Renaissance in Italy to its zenith.