Mythological and religious paintings, including the Ringling's brilliantly colored "Rest on the Flight into Egypt" (c. 1572), are testimony to Veronese's ability not only to orchestrate gorgeous textures fur, flesh, steel, damask but also to stage complex scenes like a master theater director.

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Adriaen van Ostade, the master of peasant genre scenes, is represented by "The Violinist" (1673) and seven lively etchings in a great print exhibition next door in which people are entertained by an itinerant fiddler in front of an inn.

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It would never have been one of his major works, but the swiftness and urgency with which the tale is told, and the potent composition of even the most simple scenes, reveal the touch of the master.

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