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"tombstone": "Portrait of a Young Man, c. 1530. Follower of Dosso Dossi (Italian, c. 1490\u2013after 1541). Oil and gold on wood; framed: 128.2 x 102.2 x 11.5 cm (50 1/2 x 40 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.); unframed: 97.2 x 77.5 cm (38 1/4 x 30 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Holden Collection, 1916.803",
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"title": "Portrait of a Young Man",
"creation_date": "c. 1530",
"creation_date_earliest": 1525,
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"department": "European Painting and Sculpture",
"collection": "P - Italian 16th & 17th Century",
"type": "Painting",
"measurements": "Framed: 128.2 x 102.2 x 11.5 cm (50 1/2 x 40 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.); Unframed: 97.2 x 77.5 cm (38 1/4 x 30 1/2 in.)",
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{
"id": 317001,
"title": "Inaugural Exhibition",
"description": "Inaugural Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (June 6-September 20, 1916).",
"opening_date": "1916-06-06T05:00:00"
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{
"id": 312517,
"title": "The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition",
"description": "The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936).",
"opening_date": "1936-06-26T04:00:00"
},
{
"id": 302205,
"title": "Art and Humanism in the Renaissance",
"description": "Art and Humanism in the Renaissance. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 23-February 25, 1962).",
"opening_date": "1962-01-23T05:00:00"
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"description": "Boston Foreign Art Exhibition, 1883-84, no. 29.",
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"description": "Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 1912.",
"opening_date": "1912-10-01T00:00:00"
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{
"description": "\"The Inaugural Exhibition of the CMA,\" no. 32.",
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{
"description": "Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1936, no. 109.",
"opening_date": "1936-01-01T00:00:00"
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"description": "James Jackson Jarves, 1818-1888, sold to Mrs. Liberty E. Holden, 1884.",
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"description": "Mrs. Liberty E. Holden, 1838-1932, by bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1916.",
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"description": "Like other paintings from the Dossi workshop, this work conveys the sitter's social status and self-confidence. He holds a crumpled letter written in Italian. The words Asto, meaning \"ship mast,\" and mare, meaning \"sea,\" suggest that trade was a topic of this letter. References to anatomy and the word bella imply a discussion of the magnificence of human anatomy, an interest that spread rapidly during the Renaissance. The letter likewise communicates the young man's considerable education. This work was formerly called Portrait of Giuliano de Medici; however, the sitter's lack of resemblance to Giuliano caused art historians to discount this argument. Portrait of a Young Man was earlier attributed to Dosso's brother, Battista, before recently being considered a work by Dosso or a member of his workshop. As first suggested by Roberto Longhi, Portrait of a Young Man is now considered likely to be a work of an unidentified follower of Dossi from Friuli, Italy. The Friulian follower worked from 1510 until after 1530 and had connections to Dossi's hometown of Ferrara, accounting for this work's resemblance to Dossi's style. The dark outlines and large forms of the work are of a later style than Dossi's, suggesting that the artist was a follower rather than Dossi himself.",
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"https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1916.803-portrait-of-a-young"
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 342; Mentioned: p. 343",
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"citation": "Rubinstein-Bloch, Stella. Catalogue of a Collection of Paintings, Etc. Presented by Mrs. Liberty E. Holden to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1917.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 32, cat. no. 33; Reproduced: p. 62, No. 33",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/Holden_80856/page/n42"
},
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"citation": "G. U. \"The Holden Collection.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 4, no. 2 (1917): 19-34.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 20; reproduced: p. 35",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136067"
},
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"citation": "Francis, Henry. \"An Oil by Dosso Dossi in the Holden Collection.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 37, no. 4 (April 1950): 63-66.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 63; Reproduced: p. 71",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141626"
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