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"tombstone": "Various Sketches of the Madonna and Child (recto); Architectural Studies (verso) [partially visible on recto], c. 1570. Paolo Veronese (Italian, 1528\u20131588). Pen and brown ink (iron gall) and brush and brown wash; sheet: 20.5 x 23.4 cm (8 1/16 x 9 3/16 in.); secondary support: 22 x 28.2 cm (8 11/16 x 11 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Robert Hays Gries, 1939.670",
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"title": "Various Sketches of the Madonna and Child (recto); Architectural Studies (verso) [partially visible on recto]",
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"title": "Drawings by Old Italian Masters",
"description": "Drawings by Old Italian Masters. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 5, 1940-February 25, 1941).",
"opening_date": "1940-06-05T04:00:00"
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"title": "Drawings from the Museum Collection",
"description": "Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 17-August 24, 1942).",
"opening_date": "1942-06-17T04:00:00"
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"id": 304645,
"title": "Drawings",
"description": "Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 11-September 10, 1963).",
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"title": "Old Master Drawings",
"description": "Old Master Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 10-31, 1964).",
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"title": "Italian Prints and Drawings",
"description": "Italian Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 30-March 26, 1968).",
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"title": "Veronese and His Studio in North American Collections",
"description": "Veronese and His Studio in North American Collections. Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL (organizer) (October 1-November 15, 1972); Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL (December 2-31, 1972).",
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"id": 304379,
"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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"title": "Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism",
"description": "Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 19-March 23, 1980).",
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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).",
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"id": 309655,
"title": "National Schools of Style",
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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).",
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"id": 355398,
"title": "Veronese: Painter and Craftsman",
"description": "Veronese: Painter and Craftsman. National Gallery of Art (organizer) (November 13, 1988-February 20, 1989).",
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"title": "Concept, Dogma and Feeling: Italian Drawings 1550-1650",
"description": "Concept, Dogma and Feeling: Italian Drawings 1550-1650. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 20, 1991).",
"opening_date": "1991-08-27T04:00:00"
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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).",
"opening_date": "2021-02-06T05:00:00"
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"description": "Possibly the Durazzo family, Venice",
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"description": "Robert Hays Gries (1900-1966), Cleveland.",
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"date": "?-1939",
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"did_you_know": "The sheet of paper was a more vibrant, pure blue when the drawing was made; aging has rendered the color of the sheet closer to a green-gray.",
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"description": "In the last decades of his career, Paolo Veronese and his workshop produced a number of idyllic visions of the Holy Family in repose in the countryside during their flight into Egypt. This crowded sheet of loose, lively sketches was recently proposed to have inaugurated an intensive period of interest in this subject that began around 1570. The sheet shows two horizontal rows with eight versions of the seated Virgin holding the Christ Child, in some of the sketches accompanied by the infant John the Baptist or Joseph, and in one by a donkey. The sheet presents an unusual case of being preparatory not for paintings, but for finished chiaroscuro drawings, now in London, Berlin, and Cambridge, MA. While the individual sketches may appear at first glance a mass of tangled lines and confused forms, such pen and ink drawings demonstrate the Venetian artist's restless creative energy.",
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"citation": "Scholz, Janos. \"Italian Drawings in the Art Museum of Princeton University.\" The Burlington Magazine 109, no. 770 (May 1967): 290 + 292-299.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 296, note 34",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/875302"
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"citation": "Rosand, David. \"Three Drawings by Paolo Veronese.\" Pantheon 29 (May-June 1971): 203-209.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 204, 206-209; Reproduced: p. 206, n. 3",
"url": null
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"citation": "Clayton, Stephen W, edited. Veronese & His Studio In North American Collections. [Birmingham, AL.]: [Birmingham Museum of Art], 1972.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 7; Reproduced: p. 44",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, vol. 3. London: Phaidon Press for the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1973.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 44",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Pignatti, Terisio. Veronese, vol. 1. Venice: Alfieri, 1976.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 169, under n. A5; Reproduced: n. 722",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "Cocke, Richard. \"Veronese's Independent Chiaroscuro Drawings.\" Master Drawings 15, no. 3 (Autumn 1977): 259-268 + 295-309.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 263, note 22",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/1553441"
},
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"citation": "Armenini, Giovanni Battista. On the True Precepts of the Art of Painting. Translated and edited by Edward J. Olszewski. New York: B. Franklin, 1977.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: n. 24",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "Johnson, Mark M. Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1980.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 27-28, under n. 19; Reproduced: p. 27",
"url": null
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"citation": "Olszewski, Edward J., and Jane Glaubinger. The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 18, 75, 109, 119, 135-136, under n. 109",
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},
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"citation": "Cocke, Richard. Veronese's Drawings: A Catalogue Raisonne. London: Sotheby Publications, 1984.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 21, 28, 71, 95-96, 103, 111; Reproduced: p. 102, n. 34",
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"citation": "Rearick, William R. The Art of Paolo Veronese, 1528-1588. Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1988.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 94-95, under n. 46; Reproduced: p. 95",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "Bettagno, Alessandro. Paolo Veronese, disegni e dipinti. Vicenza: Neri Pozza, 1988.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 57, under n. 12",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "Pignatti, Terisio, and Filippo Pedrocco. Veronese, vol. 2. Milan: Electa, 1995.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 504, under n. A3",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "DeGrazia, Diane and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: P. 6, 44-45, 285; Reproduced: P. 45, cat. no.12",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "Olszewski, Edward J., edited. A Corpus of Drawings in Midwestern Collections: Sixteenth-Century Italian Drawings, vol. 2. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2008.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 489-491, under n. 387; Reproduced: p. 489, n. 387",
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},
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"citation": "Brilliant, Virginia, et al. Paolo Veronese: A Master and His Workshop in Renaissance Venice. London: Scala, 2012.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 169, n. 34",
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"citation": "Rosand, David. V\u00e9ron\u00e8se. Translated by Odile Menegaux and Renaud Temperini. Paris: Citadelles & Mazenod, 2012.",
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"citation": "Brilliant, Virginia, et al. Paolo Veronese: A Master and His Workshop in Renaissance Venice. London, England: Scala, 2012.",
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