Word: soleils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then came the age of the Roi Soleil, whose grandiloquent tastes did not run to the simple beauty of Georges de La Tour. In time, De La Tour's name disappeared completely-not only from France, but from all of Europe-and it was not until 1915 that two of his paintings were formally identified by the Kaiser Friedrich Museum in Berlin. Since World War II his popularity has soared-but even today only about 20 of his paintings are known to exist...