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Stand back and take in this vast canvas. Courbet painted A Burial at Ornans in 1850, and the shock still radiates from the wall. More than ten feet wide, it fills the scene with ordinary people burying one of their own — no saints, no allegory.
Just a hillside, a gaping grave, and the citizens of Ornans in the cold.
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