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Nature 445, 822 (22 February 2007) | doi:10.1038/445822a; Published online 21 February 2007

For the love of Greece

King Ludwig I of Bavaria was a lifelong Hellenophile whose son Otto became king of Greece in 1832 after the country was freed from Turkish rule. Ludwig commissioned Carl Rottmann to produce 23 paintings celebrating contemporary and ancient Greece for his palace gardens in Munich.