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Traditional themes for imagery are expressed with fresh urgency, most of all in Elsheimer's final painting, a vision of the night sky of unprecedented poetic power that was completed at a time of ferment in astronomy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCirculated through prints, Elsheimer's pictorial inventions affected imaginations as disparate as Rembrandt, Lorrain, and Poussin. They even reached artists in Mughal India, whose equally impassioned miniatures expand our sense of what 'nature' might be. 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