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"description": "This young man is possibly a member of the Sforza household, the ruling family of Milan during the Renaissance. He wears a plaquette on his hat indicating his nobility and status. This medallion depicts an actual work by Andrea Riccio (1470\u20131532), an artist whose work is represented in the museum's collection. The medallion illustrates an allegory of fortune and virtue personified by a winged woman and a child.",
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"citation": "Art Institute of Chicago, and Daniel Catton Rich. Catalogue of a Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, Lent from the American Collections. Chicago, IL: [Printed at the Lakeside Press, R.R. Donnelley & Sons, Company], 1933.",
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"citation": "Duveen Brothers. Duveen Pictures in Public Collections of America: A Catalogue Raisonne\u0301 with Three Hundred Illustrations of Paintings by the Great Masters, Which Have Passed Through the House of Duveen. New York, NY: William Bradford Press, 1941.",
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"page_number": "Reproduced: vol. I, II",
"url": null
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 408",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n75"
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"citation": "Cappi Bentivegna, Ferruccia. Abbigliamento e costume nella pittura italiana; rinascimento. Roma, Italy: Bestetti, Edizioni d'arte, 1962.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 191, fig. 257",
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"citation": "Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972.",
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"citation": "Dizionario enciclopedico Bolaffi dei pittori e degli incisori italiani dall'XI al XX secolo. Torino, Italy: G. Bolaffi, 1972.",
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"citation": "Brusatin, Manlio. Il Cappello di Leonardo: Storie Sulla Forma delle Immagini. Venezia: Marsilio, aprile 2019.",
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