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"measurements": "Image: 15.1 x 21.6 cm (5 15/16 x 8 1/2 in.); Sheet: 15.1 x 21.6 cm (5 15/16 x 8 1/2 in.)",
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"title": "35th Anniversary Exhibition",
"description": "35th Anniversary Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-September 30, 1951).",
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"title": "Prints 1400-1800",
"description": "Prints 1400-1800. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (December 18, 1956-January 20, 1957); The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (February 1-March 3, 1957); Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN (November 1-December 1, 1957).",
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"title": "Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition",
"description": "Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3, 1958-October 11, 1959).",
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"title": "Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection",
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"title": "Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage",
"description": "Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 13-September 19, 1971).",
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"title": "Early Italian Engraving: 1460's - 1530's",
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"id": 437915,
"title": "Love Gardens / Forbidden Fruit",
"description": "Love Gardens / Forbidden Fruit. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 2-October 29, 2023).",
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"description": "Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; August 25-October 27, 2002. \"Early Italian Engravings: 1460s - 1530s.\"",
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"did_you_know": "The rock in Saint Jerome's hand was used by the saint to beat his chest when he experienced hallucinations brought on by his isolation in the desert.",
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"description": "In this inhospitable landscape, Saint Jerome appears strong and sure, praying toward a crucifix and holding a rock to beat his chest. Jerome retreated to the desert near Antioch (present-day Turkey) for four years to purify his soul through physical suffering. The cardinal\u2019s hat and book refer to his later work translating the Bible into Latin, and the lion was his companion after he pulled a thorn from its paw. A tree holding a crucifix with a skull at its base refers to Christ\u2019s cross and to Eden. The man at left may be a traveling friar begging for sustenance.",
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"citation": "Francis, Henry. \"Florentine Engravings of the Fifteenth Century.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 38, no. 3 (March 1951): 63-65.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 65",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25141699"
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
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"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n106"
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 82",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n106"
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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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"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n112"
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