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"measurements": "Framed: 59.1 x 35.6 x 3.8 cm (23 1/4 x 14 x 1 1/2 in.); Unframed: 54 x 30.8 cm (21 1/4 x 12 1/8 in.)",
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"did_you_know": "When cleaned in 1947, a modern hedge with orange trees was removed from the background of this painting.",
"description": "Neri de Bicci was a prolific painter of mainly religious themes, active principally in Florence as a panel painter. His grandfather Lorenzo di Bicci was also a painter in Florence, a pupil of Spinello Aretino. His journals from the years 1453-75, including the rates of remuneration for his work, are still preserved in the library of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.",
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"citation": "Francis, H. S. (1947). Recent Gifts to the Museum. The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 34(1).",
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"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141333"
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"citation": "Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. A List of the Principal Artists and Their Works with an Index of Places, by Bernard Berenson ... [2.], [2.]. [Lieu de publication non identifie\u0301]: Phaidon Press, 1963.",
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. European Paintings Before 1500. Cleveland: The Museum, 1974. .",
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