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Learn how an artist can link himself through music to great painters before him

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Gauguin’s Self-portrait with a Mandolin (1889) and The Player Schneklud (1894)

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Mantegna’s Ecce Homo (c.1500)

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Find out how even Michelangelo's earliest religious sculpture represents the workings of his own mind

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Michelangelo’s Madonna of the Stairs (c.1491)

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