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Georges de La Tour (Mar 13, 1593 - Jan 30, 1652) was born Vic-sur-Seille in the part of the independent Duchy of Lorraine which was absorbed into France in 1641. La Tour's educational background remains somewhat unclear, but it is assumed that he travelled either to Italy or the Netherlands early in his career. His paintings reflect the Baroque naturalism of Caravaggio, but this probably reached him through the Dutch Caravaggisti of the Utrecht School and other Northern contemporaries. In 1617 he married Diane Le Nerf, and in 1620 he established his studio in her quiet provincial home-town of Luneville, painting mainly religious and some genre scenes. He and his family died in 1652 in an epidemic in Luneville.
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