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"tombstone": "Copy of a Roman Statue of a Seated Woman, c. 1450\u201394. Circle of Domenico Ghirlandaio (Italian, 1449\u20131494). Pen and brown ink (two different colors) with graphite; framing lines in pen and brown ink; sheet: 23 x 12.8 cm (9 1/16 x 5 1/16 in.); secondary support: 23 x 12.8 cm (9 1/16 x 5 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Robert Hays Gries, 1939.653",
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"inscription": "Upper right, in red crayon: 5\u00b0\u00b0",
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"inscription": "unidentified collector's mark, lower left, in blue ink.",
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"inscription": "recto of secondary support, in top half, in brown ink: [illegible, visible in transmitted light]",
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"inscription": "verso of secondary support, upper center, in red crayon: A 37",
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"description": "CMA, Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism (Feb. 19-Mar. 23, 1980), pp. 16-7, illus.",
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"description": "The oddness of a sculptural fragment draped with clothing points to the workshop context of this drawing. When young artists became apprentices to master artists, they sometimes learned to draw by sketching from sculptures, even draping them with fabric in order to practice folds and texture. The technique of this pen-and-ink drawing\u2014with closely spaced, crossed lines within tightly closed outlines\u2014ties it to the circle of Domenico Ghirlandaio, a Florentine painter to which Michelangelo was apprenticed in 1487. Apprentices in Ghirlandaio\u2019s large studio were taught his \u201csystem\u201d for creating tone and depth.",
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"citation": "Miller, Michael. \"A Michelangelo Drawing.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 77, no. 5 (1990): 146-74.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 158; Mentioned: p. 158, 173",
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