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    "data": {
        "id": 124796,
        "accession_number": "1946.277",
        "share_license_status": "CC0",
        "tombstone": "Study for \"The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian\" (for the Augustinian monastery at Diessen, Germany), 1739. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, 1696\u20131770). Oil on canvas; framed: 67.5 x 45.5 x 6 cm (26 9/16 x 17 15/16 x 2 3/8 in.); unframed: 51.7 x 31.7 cm (20 3/8 x 12 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Delia E. Holden and L. E. Holden Funds, 1946.277",
        "current_location": "214 Central and Northern European",
        "title": "Study for \"The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian\" (for the Augustinian monastery at Diessen, Germany)",
        "creation_date": "1739",
        "creation_date_earliest": 1739,
        "creation_date_latest": 1739,
        "artists_tags": [
            "male"
        ],
        "culture": [
            "Italy"
        ],
        "technique": "oil on canvas",
        "support_materials": [],
        "department": "European Painting and Sculpture",
        "collection": "P - Italian 18th Century",
        "type": "Painting",
        "measurements": "Framed: 67.5 x 45.5 x 6 cm (26 9/16 x 17 15/16 x 2 3/8 in.); Unframed: 51.7 x 31.7 cm (20 3/8 x 12 1/2 in.)",
        "dimensions": {
            "framed": {
                "height": 0.675,
                "height_inch": 26,
                "height_inch_fraction": 0.5625,
                "width": 0.455,
                "width_inch": 17,
                "width_inch_fraction": 0.9375,
                "depth": 0.06,
                "depth_inch": 2,
                "depth_inch_fraction": 0.375
            },
            "unframed": {
                "height": 0.517,
                "height_inch": 20,
                "height_inch_fraction": 0.375,
                "width": 0.317,
                "width_inch": 12,
                "width_inch_fraction": 0.5
            }
        },
        "state_of_the_work": null,
        "edition_of_the_work": null,
        "copyright": null,
        "inscriptions": [],
        "exhibitions": {
            "current": [
                {
                    "id": 356660,
                    "title": "Venice 1700-1800: An Exhibition of the Venetian Eighteenth Century",
                    "description": "<i>Venice 1700-1800: An Exhibition of the Venetian Eighteenth Century</i>. Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields; The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (organizer) (September 30-November 2, 1952).",
                    "opening_date": "1952-09-30T05:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "id": 300859,
                    "title": "The Venetian Tradition",
                    "description": "<i>The Venetian Tradition</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 8, 1956-January 1, 1957).",
                    "opening_date": "1956-11-08T05:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "id": 304544,
                    "title": "The Tiepolos and Their World",
                    "description": "<i>The Tiepolos and Their World</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (October 6-November 22, 1981).",
                    "opening_date": "1981-10-06T04:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "id": 335892,
                    "title": "Giambattista Tiepolo: Master of the Oil Sketch",
                    "description": "<i>Giambattista Tiepolo: Master of the Oil Sketch</i>. Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (organizer) (September 18-December 12, 1993).",
                    "opening_date": "1993-09-18T04:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "id": 380181,
                    "title": "Heaven on Earth (Tiepolo in W\u00fcrzburg)",
                    "description": "<i>Heaven on Earth (Tiepolo in W\u00fcrzburg)</i>. W\u00fcrzburg Residenz (organizer) (February 14-May 19, 1996).",
                    "opening_date": "1996-02-14T05:00:00"
                }
            ],
            "legacy": [
                {
                    "description": "Detroit Institute of Arts and John Herron Art Museum (Indianapolis), 1952.: Venice, 1700\u20141800, An Exhibition of Venice and the Eighteenth Century, cat. no. 66;",
                    "opening_date": "1952-01-01T00:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "description": "CMA, 1956. Akron Art Institute, October 1-October 31, 1957: \"Masterpieces Series,\" (no cat.)",
                    "opening_date": "1957-10-01T00:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "description": "Wurzburg, Germany, State Gallery of the Wurzburg Residence, February 14-May 19, 1996: \"Tiepolo in Wurzburg,\" cat. #.",
                    "opening_date": "1996-02-14T00:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "description": "Paintings, Drawings and Prints by the Two Tiepolos, Giambattista and Giandomenico. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (1938).",
                    "opening_date": "1938-01-01T00:00:00"
                },
                {
                    "description": "Venetian Painting from the Fifteenth Century through the Eighteenth Century. Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA (1938).",
                    "opening_date": "1938-01-01T00:00:00"
                }
            ]
        },
        "provenance": [
            {
                "description": "Sale, Munich, 1804, unsold and then transferred to the Zentralgem\u00e4ldegalerie",
                "citations": [],
                "footnotes": [
                    "<div><!--block-->After the secularization of the monasteries, including the one at Diessen, many works were transferred immediately to the Zentralgem\u00e4ldegalerie (the predecessor of the Bayerische Staatsgem\u00e4ldesammlungen), while others first went to the Conservatorium der aufgehobenen Kl\u00f6ster, a depot in the Theatiner monastery (today, Odeonsplatz). From there they were auctioned off, and if they failed to sell, as was the case with the Tiepolo (lot 1084), they were given to the Zentralgem\u00e4ldegalerie; the Tiepolo was transferred there on August 20, 1804.&nbsp; This auction had no printed catalogue, only a handwritten list currently at the Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv in Munich.&nbsp;</div>"
                ],
                "date": null,
                "sortorder": 1
            },
            {
                "description": "Bayerischen Staatsgem\u00e4ldesammlungen, Munich, deaccessioned and sold at auction",
                "citations": [],
                "footnotes": [
                    "<div><!--block-->Soon after it was transported to Schlei\u00dfheim castle, a repository for the Zentralgem\u00e4ldegalerie\u2019s rapidly growing holdings, on August 20, 1804 the Tiepolo was entered as No. 2186 in the \"Zweibr\u00fccker Nachtragsinventar,\" the inventory of the Zentralgem\u00e4ldegalerie's acquisitions.&nbsp; Tiepolo\u2019s sketch for \u201cThe Stoning of St. Stephen\u201d was No. 2187 in the inventory.&nbsp; In the new inventory of 1822, the \u201cSt. Sebastian\u201d and \u201cSt. Stephen\u201d were listed as Nos. 4150 and 4151, respectively.&nbsp;</div>"
                ],
                "date": "1804-1852",
                "sortorder": 2
            },
            {
                "description": "(Sale, Schloss Schlei\u00dfheim, Augsburg, April 13-23, 1852, lot 16, sold to \u201cEberle\u201d)",
                "citations": [],
                "footnotes": [
                    "<div><!--block-->Both Tiepolo sketches for Diessen were sold by the Bayerischen Staatsgem\u00e4ldesammlungen (formerly the Zentralgem\u00e4ldegalerie) at auction in 1852. &nbsp; The \u201cSaint Stephen\u201d was sold to a \u201cVicentini\u201d or \u201cVecentini.\u201d</div>"
                ],
                "date": "1852",
                "sortorder": 3
            },
            {
                "description": "Possibly Robert Eberle [1815-1860], Munich, probably by descent to a Vienna collector1",
                "citations": [],
                "footnotes": [
                    "<div><!--block-->1\u201cEberle,\u201d the name listed as the buyer in the inventory of the 1852 sale, may be Robert Eberle, a painter living in Munich.&nbsp; This would be consistent with the fact that a Munich family (Eberle?) is mentioned in \"Dr. Fr\u00f6hlich\u2019s\" (likely Otto Fr\u00f6hlich, a Jewish art dealer who focused on works by the Old Masters) letter of Oct. 27, 1928 to Seligmann as having owned the painting. Robert\u2019s son Adolf, also a painter, had an art collection as well (his collection was sold on June 6, 1916), but given that Fr\u00f6hlich says that the painting passed, by inheritance (\u201cErbgang\u201d), to a collector in Vienna \u2013 presumably a relative of Eberle - in the second half of the nineteenth century, it is more likely that only Robert owned it, as Adolf died in 1914. &nbsp;</div>"
                ],
                "date": "1852-1860",
                "sortorder": 4
            },
            {
                "description": "Collector, Vienna, sold to a \u201cminor collector\u201d1",
                "citations": [],
                "footnotes": [
                    "<div><!--block-->1According to Fr\u00f6hlich's letter to Seligmann of Oct. 27, 1928, the Viennese collector was a \u201cwell-positioned official\u201d (\u201choheren Beamten\u201d) who sold the painting to a \u201cminor collector\u201d (\u201ckleiner Sammler\u201d) in 1921.&nbsp;</div>"
                ],
                "date": "Late 19th century -1921",
                "sortorder": 5
            },
            {
                "description": "\u201cMinor collector,\u201d Vienna, probably sold or consigned to Galerie Fr\u00f6hlich1",
                "citations": [],
                "footnotes": [
                    "<div><!--block-->1Fr\u00f6hlich\u2019s letter to Seligmann says that the Tiepolo was acquired in 1921 by a \u201cminor collector and distrustful odd, old man.\u201d&nbsp; Fr\u00f6hlich notes that several years prior to 1928, the owner entrusted the Tiepolo to a Swiss dealer who was going to show the painting to a collector interested in the painting.&nbsp; It does not appear, however, that any transactions were made involving this dealer or collector.&nbsp; Because Fr\u00f6hlich never mentions the name Kadisch, it is unlikely that the unidentified old man is Kadisch; a more likely scenario is that Seligmann sold the painting to Kadisch and that it was somehow returned to Seligmann by 1937/1938 (see note 9).&nbsp; &nbsp;</div>"
                ],
                "date": "1921-1928?",
                "sortorder": 6
            },
            {
                "description": "(Galerie Fr\u00f6hlich, Vienna, sold to Jacques Seligmann & Co.)1",
                "citations": [],
                "footnotes": [
                    "<div><!--block-->1Correspondence between Dr. Fr\u00f6hlich and Jacques Seligmann from 1928 indicates that Fr\u00f6hlich sold the painting to Seligmann in 1928.&nbsp;</div>"
                ],
                "date": "1928",
                "sortorder": 7
            },
            {
                "description": "(Jacques Seligmann & Co., New York, NY, probably sold to Dr. Max  Kadisch)1",
                "citations": [],
                "footnotes": [
                    "<div><!--block-->1Because Fr\u00f6hlich does not mention Kadisch in his account of the painting\u2019s recent provenance, and because it is in the Seligmann records that we first see a reference to Kadisch, it seems probable that Fr\u00f6hlich did not acquire the painting from Kadisch (and thus, Kadisch is not the \u201codd, old man\u201d referred to by Fr\u00f6hlich).&nbsp; Rather, because the Tiepolo appears in the Seligmann records under two different inventory numbers, it seems that Seligmann likely sold the painting to Kadisch sometime after 1928 (inv. no. 4370, 1928-1929 Seligmann stock book) and then, the painting made its way back to Seligmann from Kadisch, perhaps after the latter\u2019s death, which had occurred by 1938, according to Lili Fr\u00f6hlich-Bume's article published that year.&nbsp; It should be noted, however, that a review of the Seligmann credit/debit records, ledgers, stock books, and purchase receipts from 1928-1936, do not reveal any reference to the Tiepolo, and thus a sale to Kadisch has not been pinpointed.</div>"
                ],
                "date": "1928-by 1930?",
                "sortorder": 8
            },
            {
                "description": "Probably Dr. Max Kadisch, Vienna, to Jacques Seligmann & Co.1",
                "citations": [],
                "footnotes": [
                    "<div><!--block-->1The Seligmann &amp; Co. file on the Tiepolo lists the last owner as \u201cDr. Max Kadisch\u201d of Vienna; beyond this information, nothing is known about Kadisch, but research continues.&nbsp; There is an unconfirmed reference in the museum\u2019s files that the painting was with Kadisch by 1930.&nbsp; Lili Fr\u00f6hlich-Bume comments in her 1938 article in the <em>Burlington Magazine </em>that the Tiepolo \u201cturned up a few years ago in the collection of the late Dr. Kadisch at Vienna,\u201d suggesting that Kadisch had the painting more recently than prior to 1928, further supporting Kadisch\u2019s not having been the \u201codd, old man\u201d from whom Fr\u00f6hlich acquired the painting.&nbsp; There is, however, no reference in the Seligmann records to the painting\u2019s having gone back and forth between Seligmann and Kadisch.&nbsp; &nbsp;</div>"
                ],
                "date": "By 1930? - 1917/1938",
                "sortorder": 9
            },
            {
                "description": "(Jacques Seligmann & Co., New York, New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)1",
                "citations": [],
                "footnotes": [
                    "<div><!--block-->1The painting was back with Seligmann &amp; Co. by 1937/1938, when it is listed in the stock book with inv. no. 6508.&nbsp; The Tiepolo also appears, under the same inventory number, in the list of \u201cWorks of Art Sold or Taken out of Stock 1946-1948.\u201d &nbsp;</div>"
                ],
                "date": "1937/1938 - 1946",
                "sortorder": 10
            },
            {
                "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio\n \nDelia E. Holden and L.E. Holden Funds",
                "citations": [],
                "footnotes": null,
                "date": "1946-",
                "sortorder": 11
            }
        ],
        "find_spot": null,
        "related_works": [],
        "former_accession_numbers": [],
        "did_you_know": null,
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        "description": "In 1739 a pair of monumental altarpieces by two Venetian painters (Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and Giambattista Pittoni) were installed in a church in southern Germany, part of a carefully orchestrated decorative program that included architecture, painting, sculpture, and decorative stuccowork. This sketch is Tiepolo\u2019s initial design for his altarpiece, submitted for approval before beginning the final work. With quick, assured brushstrokes, he represents the Christian martyr Sebastian bound to a tree and shot with arrows, flooded with radiant light to symbolize his devotion to his faith.",
        "external_resources": {
            "wikidata": [
                "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60515261"
            ],
            "internet_archive": [
                "https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1946.277-study-for-the-martyr"
            ]
        },
        "citations": [
            {
                "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.",
                "page_number": null,
                "url": null
            },
            {
                "citation": "Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista, The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian, 1928-1946, 1910. Series 2.2: Museum Files, 1904-1977, undated. Jacques Seligmann &amp; Co. records, 1904-1978, bulk 1913-1974. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. [Box 218, folder 5 \u2013 digitzed: http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/container/viewer/Tiepolo-Giovanni-Battista-emph-render-italic-The-Martyrdom-of-Saint-Sebastian-emph--292202].",
                "page_number": null,
                "url": null
            },
            {
                "citation": "Stock Catalogs, New York Office: Stock Catalog, 1937-1938, Jacques Seligmann &amp; Co. records, 1904-1978, bulk 1913-1974, Series 6.1: Stock Catalogs, New York Office, 1923-1971, undated. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. [Box 218, folder 5 \u2013 digitzed: http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/container/viewer/Tiepolo-Giovanni-Battista-emph-render-italic-The-Martyrdom-of-Saint-Sebastian-emph--292202].",
                "page_number": null,
                "url": null
            },
            {
                "citation": "Lili Fr\u00f6hlich-Bume, \u201cNotes on some works by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo,\u201d <em>Burlington Magazine </em>72 (Jan.-June 1938): 82.",
                "page_number": null,
                "url": null
            },
            {
                "citation": "Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista, The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian, 1928-1946, 1910. Series 2.2: Museum Files, 1904-1977, undated. Jacques Seligmann &amp; Co. records, 1904-1978, bulk 1913-1974. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. [Box 218, folder 5 \u2013 digitzed: http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/container/viewer/Tiepolo-Giovanni-Battista-emph-render-italic-The-Martyrdom-of-Saint-Sebastian-emph--292202].",
                "page_number": null,
                "url": null
            },
            {
                "citation": "Stock Catalogs, New York Office: Stock Catalog, 1937-1938, Jacques Seligmann &amp; Co. records, 1904-1978, bulk 1913-1974, Series 6.1: Stock Catalogs, New York Office, 1923-1971, undated. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. [Box 218, folder 5 \u2013 digitzed: http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/container/viewer/Tiepolo-Giovanni-Battista-emph-render-italic-The-Martyrdom-of-Saint-Sebastian-emph--292202].",
                "page_number": null,
                "url": null
            },
            {
                "citation": "(Otto?) Fr\u00f6hlich, letter to Germain Seligmann, Oct. 27, 1928, Jacques Seligmann &amp; Co. records, 1904-1978, bulk 1913-1974, Series 2.2: Museum Files, 1904-1977, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. [Box 218, folder 5 \u2013 digitzed: http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/container/viewer/Tiepolo-Giovanni-Battista-emph-render-italic-The-Martyrdom-of-Saint-Sebastian-emph--292202].",
                "page_number": null,
                "url": null
            },
            {
                "citation": null,
                "page_number": null,
                "url": null
            },
            {
                "citation": "Otto Fr\u00f6hlich, letter to Germain Seligmann, Oct. 27, 1928, Jacques Seligmann &amp; Co. records, 1904-1978, bulk 1913-1974, Series 2.2: Museum Files, 1904-1977, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. [Box 218, folder 5 \u2013 digitzed: http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/container/viewer/Tiepolo-Giovanni-Battista-emph-render-italic-The-Martyrdom-of-Saint-Sebastian-emph--292202].",
                "page_number": null,
                "url": null
            },
            {
                "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.",
                "page_number": null,
                "url": null
            },
            {
                "citation": "(Otto?) Fr\u00f6hlich, letter to Germain Seligmann, Oct. 27, 1928, Jacques Seligmann &amp; Co. records, 1904-1978, bulk 1913-1974, Series 2.2: Museum Files, 1904-1977, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. [Box 218, folder 5 \u2013 digitzed: http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/container/viewer/Tiepolo-Giovanni-Battista-emph-render-italic-The-Martyrdom-of-Saint-Sebastian-emph--292202].",
                "page_number": null,
                "url": null
            },
            {
                "citation": "\u201cDie sogenannte Schlei\u00dfheimer Versteigerung - Liste aller Inventarnummern,\u201d Zentralinstitut f\u00fcr Kunstgeschichte, http://www.zikg.eu/photothek/projekte/schleissheimer-versteigerung/pdf, retrieved Jan. 27, 201",
                "page_number": null,
                "url": null
            },
            {
                "citation": "(Otto?) Fr\u00f6hlich, letter to Germain Seligmann, Oct. 27, 1928, Jacques Seligmann &amp; Co. records, 1904-1978, bulk 1913-1974, Series 2.2: Museum Files, 1904-1977, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. [Box 218, folder 5 \u2013 digitzed: http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/container/viewer/Tiepolo-Giovanni-Battista-emph-render-italic-The-Martyrdom-of-Saint-Sebastian-emph--292202].",
                "page_number": null,
                "url": null
            },
            {
                "citation": "\u201cDie sogenannte Schlei\u00dfheimer Versteigerung - Liste aller Inventarnummern,\u201d Zentralinstitut f\u00fcr Kunstgeschichte, http://www.zikg.eu/photothek/projekte/schleissheimer-versteigerung/pdf, retrieved Jan. 27, 2014.<br><br><ul><li><br></li></ul>",
                "page_number": null,
                "url": null
            },
            {
                "citation": "Sack, Edward. <em>Giambattista und Domenico Tiepolo: ihr leben und ihre werke. </em>Hamburg, Germany: H. v. Clarmanns Kunstverlag, 1910.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 187; no. 318",
                "url": null
            },
            {
                "citation": "Froelich-Bume, L. \"Notes on Some Works by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.\" <em>Burlington Magazine</em> LXXII, no. 419 (February 1938): 82-87.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced: pl. 1A; mentioned: p. 87",
                "url": null
            },
            {
                "citation": "Middeldorf, Ulrich. \"Eine Tiepolo-Ausstellung in Chicago.\" <em>Pantheon</em> xxi (May 1938): 139-147.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 147",
                "url": null
            },
            {
                "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 426; Mentioned: p. 425-427",
                "url": null
            },
            {
                "citation": "Francis, Henry S. \"Tiepolo's Modello for The Martyrdom of St. Sebastian at Kiessen, \" <em>The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art XXXIV</em>, no. 1(January 1947)",
                "page_number": "Reproduced: cover; Mentioned: p. 3-4",
                "url": null
            },
            {
                "citation": "Berenson, Bernard. \"Giovan Battista Tiepolo.\" <em>L'Illustrazione Italiana</em> VI (1951): 59.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 59, fig. 3",
                "url": null
            },
            {
                "citation": "Morassi, Antonio. \"Una mostra del Settecento Veneziano a Detroit,\" <em>Arte Veneta: Rivista di Storia dell'Arte </em>VII (1953): 49-62.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 52-53",
                "url": null
            },
            {
                "citation": "Francis, Henry Sayles. <em>Venetian Tradition: Catalogue of the Exhibition.</em> [Cleveland, Ohio]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1956.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 32, no. 45",
                "url": ""
            },
            {
                "citation": "Milliken, William Mathewson. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> New York, NY: H.N. Abrams, 1958.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 46",
                "url": null
            },
            {
                "citation": "Seligman, Germain. <em>Merchants of Art: 1880-1960; Eighty Years of Professional Collecting.</em> New York, NY: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1962.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced: pl. 85",
                "url": null
            },
            {
                "citation": "Morassi,<em> Antonio. A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings of G.B. Tiepolo.</em> London, UK: Phaidon Press, 1962.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 9, fig. 116",
                "url": null
            },
            {
                "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 145",
                "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n169"
            },
            {
                "citation": "Pallucchini, Anna.<em>L'opera completa di Giambattista Tiepolo</em>. Milano, IT: Rizzoli, 1968.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 104, no. 125a; vol. 25",
                "url": null
            },
            {
                "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 145",
                "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n169"
            },
            {
                "citation": "Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. <em>Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. </em>Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 196, 449, 574",
                "url": null
            },
            {
                "citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 144",
                "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n164"
            },
            {
                "citation": "Brown, Beverly Louise, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Terisio Pignatti, Oreste Ferrari, and Teresa Longyear. <em>Giambattista Tiepolo: Master of the Oil Sketch</em>. Milan: Electa, 1993.",
                "page_number": "Mentioned: cat. no. 45, p. 32",
                "url": null
            },
            {
                "citation": "Kru\u0308ckmann, Peter Oluf. <em>Tiepolo in Wu\u0308rzburg: der Himmel auf Erden.</em> Mu\u0308nchen, Germany: Prestel, 1996.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 126-127; pl. 59",
                "url": null
            },
            {
                "citation": "Petzet, Michael, Susanne Bo\u0308ning-Weis, Karlheinz Hemmeter, and York Langenstein. <em>Monumental: Festschrift fu\u0308r Michael Petzet zum 65. Geburtstag am 12. April 1998.</em> Mu\u0308nchen, Germany: Bayerisches Landesamt fu\u0308r Denkmalpflege, 1998.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 626",
                "url": null
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