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"title": "Pontifical Ceremony in SS. Giovanni e Paolo, Venice, 1782",
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"title": "Splendore a Venezia: Art and Music from the Renaissance to Baroque in the Serenissima",
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"title": "Eyewitness Views: Making History in Eighteenth-Century Europe",
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"description": "Springfield (Massachusetts), Museum of Fine Arts, 1937: \"Francesco Guardi, 1712-1793,\" cat. nos. 5 and 6, repr.",
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"description": "San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1938: \"Venetian Paintings from the Fifteenth through the Eighteenth Century,\" cat. nos. 35 and 36 repr.",
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"description": "Venice, Italy, Palazzo Grassi, June 5-October 10, 1965: \"Mostra dei Guardi,\" cat. no. 142, repr. (Te Deum only sent to exhibition, with incorrect dimensions) (catalogue by Pietro Zampetti).",
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"description": "Palazzo Reale, Milan (11/10/2003 - 5/2/2004): \"Il Gran Teatro del Mondo: L'Anima e il Volto del Settecento\", ex. cat. no. II.56, p. 416-417.",
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"description": "Jakob Goldschmidt, Berlin, 1929, and New York;",
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"description": "The second scene in the series depicts Pius VI celebrating mass in the Basilica of Santi Giovanni e Paolo, one of the largest churches in Venice and the pope\u2019s residence during his stay. The mass included a performance of the Te Deum, a prayer of thanksgiving set to music by the Venetian composer Antonio Vivaldi (1678\u20131741). Traditionally, the Te Deum was recited in thanks to God for a special blessing, including a papal election or a royal coronation, and thus was appropriate for this historic papal visit.",
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