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"description": "Bavarian Nationalmuseum, Munich (5/10/2007 - 9/16/2007), the J. Paul Getty Musuem, Los Angeles (10/30/2007 - 1/20/2008) and Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN (2/13/2009 - 6/7/2009): \"Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art\"",
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"description": "According to the Gospel of Matthew, three Magi, guided by a star, found the newborn Christ and laid gifts before him. Artists throughout the 15th century elaborated considerably upon this biblical account, devoting particular attention to the Magi\u2019s entourage, which gave them an opportunity to depict the splendor of contemporary aristocratic life. Here, the Magi solemnly honor the divine child in the Virgin\u2019s arms, while their bustling retinue of courtiers and animals provides an exuberant visual diversion. Di Paolo was one of the leading painters in 15th-century Siena, noted both for his manuscript illuminations and painted panels supplied to the city\u2019s churches.",
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, Edward B. Henning. Paths of Abstract Art. Cleveland, Ohio: H.N. Abrams, 1960.",
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"citation": "De Fernandez-Gimenez, Elizabeth Ourusoff. \u201cGiovanni Di Paolo: The Life of St. Catherine of Siena.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 54, no. 4 (April 1967): 103\u2013110.",
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 1. European Paintings before 1500. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974.",
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"citation": "Sterling, Charles. \u201cFighting Animals in the Adoration of the Magi.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 61, no. 10 (December 1974): 350\u2013359.",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
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"citation": "Boskovits, Miklo\u0301s. Maestri senesi e toscani nel Lindenau-Museum di Altenburg. [Siena, Italy]: Protagon, 2008.",
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"citation": "Zappasodi, Emanuele. Sorores reclusae: spazi di clausura e immagini dipinte in Umbria fra XIII e XIV secolo. Firenze: Mandragor, 2018.",
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