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"title": "The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition",
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"opening_date": "1936-06-26T04:00:00"
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"did_you_know": "The removal of a thick coat of soiled and discolored varnish in 1943 gave this painting new life.",
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"description": "Neri de Bicci was a prolific painter of mainly religious themes, active principally in Florence as a panel painter. His grandfather, Lorenzo di Bicci was also a painter in Florence. His journals from the years 1453\u201375, including the rates of payment for his work, are still preserved in the library of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.",
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"citation": "Hollenden Gallery, James Jackson Jarves, and Liberty Emery Holden. Handbook for Visitors to the Hollenden Gallery of Masters: Exhibited at the Boston Foreign Art Exhibition in 1883-4. [Place of publication not identified]: [J.J. Jarves], 1883.",
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"citation": "Berenson, Mary Logan, \"Dipinti Italiana in Cleveland,\" Rassegna d'arte VII, no. I (January 1907).",
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"citation": "Thieme, Ulrich, Felix Becker, Fred. C. Willis, and Hans Vollmer. Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Ku\u0308nstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 1907.",
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"citation": "Burroughs, Bryson. \u201cEarly Italian Paintings: Lent by Mrs. Liberty Emery Holden.\u201d The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 7, no. 10 (1912).",
"page_number": "Cat no. 3 p. 175",
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"citation": "Marle, Raimond van, and Charlotte van Marle. The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting. The Hague: M. Nijhoff, 1923.",
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"citation": "Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: A List of the Principal Artists and Their Works, with an Index of Places. 1932.",
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"citation": "Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: A List of the Principal Artists and Their Works, with an Index of Places : Florentine School. London: Phaidon Press, 1963.",
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 1. European Paintings before 1500. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974.",
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"citation": "American Exhibition of Foreign Products, Arts & Manufactures. Art Department. [BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS]: [BOSTON. FOREIGN ART EXHIBITION, 1883], 1883.",
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"citation": "Jacob-Friesen, Holger, Claudia Kryza-Gersch, and Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden Zwinger mit Semperbau, eds. Der Madonna Ganz Nah : Reliefs Und Gema\u0308Lde Der Florentiner Renaissance. Dresden: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, 2024.",
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