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From 1841 he studied with Piloty in Munich. His paintings "Modern Putti" and the seven-metres-long triptych "The Plague in Florence" made him famous overnight. The Emperor Francis Joseph I called Makart to Vienna and paid for his first studio. In 1872 he was made honorary member of the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, and the Empress Elisabeth visited him in his studio. The following year, on the occasion of the Vienna World's Fair, he exhibited his large painting "Venice Pays Homage to Caterina Cornaro" in a special show. Travelled to Venice, Egypt, Spain and Morocco. In 1878 Makart was made professor of the Special School of History Painting at the Academy in Vienna, and in 1879 he received his first large state commission: to design the "state procession on the occasion of the imperial silver wedding anniversary". In 1881 he executed his first - and last - official commission of a large-scale decoration, the pictorial decoration of the staircase of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. When he died in 1884, Makart had only completed the lunettes as well as a sketch for the large ceiling painting depicting "The Triumph of Light over Darkness".

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