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"title": "Sketches of Virgin and Child",
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"title": "Drawings",
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"title": "Old Master Drawings",
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"title": "The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles",
"description": "The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 6-April 22, 1979).",
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"id": 304546,
"title": "Connoisseurship in Italian Figural Compositions",
"description": "Connoisseurship in Italian Figural Compositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 1980-February 15, 1981).",
"opening_date": "1980-10-21T04:00:00"
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"title": "Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection",
"description": "Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 16, 1986-March 1, 1987).",
"opening_date": "1986-12-16T05:00:00"
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{
"id": 188842,
"title": "Conserving the Past for the Future",
"description": "Conserving the Past for the Future. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-May 6, 2001).",
"opening_date": "2001-03-04T00:00:00"
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{
"id": 383281,
"title": "Stories from Storage",
"description": "Stories from Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021).",
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"description": "CMA, The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles (Mar. 6-Apr. 22, 1979), no. 85, illus., pp. 18, 107.",
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"description": "CMA, Old Master Drawings (Mar. 10-30, 1964).",
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"description": "CMA, \"Drawings from the Collection\" (Jan. 11-Sep. 10, 1963).",
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"description": "CMA, \"Miscellaneous Installation\" (Jan. 21-Feb. 13, 1957).",
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"description": "CMA (installed, gallery VI July 22, 1956).",
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"description": "CMA, (gallery V July 9-Nov. 7, 1948).",
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"description": "CMA, \"Drawings from the Collection\" (Jan. 20-Apr. 26, 1948).",
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"description": "CMA, \"Drawings from the Collection\" (June 17-Oct. 4, 1942).",
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"description": "CMA, Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, London, Supplemented by Drawings from the Collection (Oct. 1-30, 1938).",
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"description": "CMA, \"Drawings by Old and Modern Masters from the Collection\" (June 5, 1930-Jan. 9, 1931; Feb. 20-Mar. 15, 1931; June 10, 1931-Jan. 16, 1932).",
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"description": "Jonathan Richardson, Sr., London (Lugt 2183, lower right, in black ink; Lugt 2983-2984 or possibly John Barnard mount and inscription?, verso of old mount (now removed), upper center, written in ink: L. 74. / G.) . [FritzRoy Carrington]",
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"did_you_know": "Sixteenth-century artists from the northern provinces of Italy like Giulio Campi often focused on painterly effects such as light and shadow, rather than line, in their drawings.",
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"description": "This sheet of sketches was drawn from imagination in preparation for a painting. Here, the artist explored five different ways to capture the motion of a restless child enfolded in its mother\u2019s embrace. Blue-gray papers like this were made from indigo-dyed rags and typically used for drawings by 16th-century Venetian artists such as Giulio Campi to study the painterly effects of light and shade.",
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"citation": "Miller, Michael J., Drawing, a Glossary of Materials: Selections from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1987",
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"citation": "Olszewski, Edward J., Burton L. Dunbar, Robert Munman, et al. Sixteenth-Century Italian Drawings. Corpus of Drawings in Midwestern Collections. Harvey Miller, 2008.",
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