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As a result, he immersed himself in " the history of the Jews, their trials, prophecies, and disasters ", notes Wullschlager.
She adds that beginning the assignment was an " extraordinary risk " for Chagall, as he had finally become well known as a leading contemporary painter, but would now end his modernist themes and delve into " an ancient past ".
Between 1931 and 1934 he worked " obsessively " on " The Bible ", even going to Amsterdam in order to carefully study the biblical paintings of Rembrandt and El Greco, to see the extremes of religious painting.
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