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Alphonse Marie Mucha, a Czech-born artist, was raised in a strict
Roman Catholic environment, and the religious tradition of rich
decoration was later to play an important part in his art. Mucha's
style is marked by a wealth of luxurious details; he used muted
colors, gold leaf, complicated and delicate patterns, and intricately
intertwined lines-the whole overlaid with a feeling of mystic ritual.
As a young man he studied at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts, and
later, under the sponsorship of Count Khuen, at the Munich Academy. He
came to Paris in 1887 and worked under Lefebvre, Boulanger, and
Laurens.
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