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most of them dating from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

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Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde (1723–37) set a new agenda for thinking about faith and provided a lasting visual template for representing the world's religions

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Eyewitness Views: Making History in Eighteenth-Century Europe BTS Books where the book artPeter Bjrn Kerber Canaletto, Bernardo Bellotto, Luca Carlevarijs, Giovanni Paolo Panini, Francesco Guardi, Hubert Robertthese renowned view painters are perhaps most famous for their expansive canvases depicting the ruins of Rome or the canals of Venice. Many of their most splendid paintings, however, feature important contemporary events. These occasions motivated some of the greatest artists of the era to produce their most exceptional work. Little