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                   Painters developed techniques 
                                      to create illusionistic realism in the 
                                      early Renaissance, especially by Flemish, German and 
                                      Italian painters. New and innovative techniques 
									  developed over the following decades, brought 
                                      to a highly polished levels during the Dutch Golden Age 
									  of the 17th Century and again in the 
									  Neoclassical period of the late 18th and 
									  early 19th Centuries. Many of these 
									  techniques were bypassed with the advent 
									  of Modernism during the late 19th and 
									  early 20th Centuries. In Magic 
                                      Realism many techniques were rediscovered, 
									  specifically to portray everyday objects. 
									  Magic Realism therefore integrated 
									  traditional techniques with contemporary 
									  subject material.     |