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"title": "Love Gardens / Forbidden Fruit",
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"did_you_know": "The small bowl held by the saint signifies his role as baptizer of Christ.",
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"description": "Slender and weathered from preaching in the wilderness where he lived on locusts and wild honey, John the Baptist carries a bowl of water, symbolizing his role as the baptizer of Christ. In this print, Campagnola combined engraved lines with his innovative stipple technique, in which tiny dots softly shade the surface of the saint\u2019s body and produce the hazy atmosphere of the rustic landscape.",
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"citation": "Prasse, Leona. \"An Engraving of 'St. John the Baptist' by Giulio Campagnola.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 22, no. 2 (February 1935): 15-18",
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"citation": "Francis, Henry Sayles. Venetian Tradition: Catalogue of the Exhibition. [Cleveland, Ohio]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1956.",
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