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"title": "Lorenzo Lotto",
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"title": "Lorenzo Lotto, Portraits",
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"title": "Renaissance to Runway: The Enduring Italian Houses",
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"did_you_know": "This fashionable man broadcasts his wealth by wearing a fur-lined velvet and satin outfit with expensive gold jewelry.",
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"citation": "Francis, Henry. \"Venetian Art and Its Field of Influence.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 38, no. 2 (February 1951): 21-27, 30-35, 38-40",
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"citation": "Banti, Anna. Lorenzo Lotto di Anna Banti. Firenze, Italy: Sansoni, 1953.",
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"citation": "Pignatti, Teresio. Lorenzo Lotto; 147 tavole in nero, 4 tavole a colori. Milano, Italy: Mondadori, 1953.",
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"citation": "Francis, Henry S. \"Portraits by Lorenzo Lotto.\" The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art XLIV, (1957): 44.",
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"url": null
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 413",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n76"
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"citation": "Milliken, William Mathewson. The Cleveland Museum of Art. New York, NY: H.N. Abrams, 1958.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 34",
"url": null
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"citation": "Cappi Bentivegna, Ferruccia. Abbigliamento e costume nella pittura italiana; rinascimento. Roma, Italy: Bestetti, Edizioni d'arte, 1962.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 236. fig. 333",
"url": null
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"citation": "Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972.",
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"url": null
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"citation": "L'opera completa del Lotto. Milano, Italy: Rizzoli, 1975.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 107; Mentioned: p. 108",
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"citation": "Caroli, Flavio. Lorenzo Lotto et la nascita della psicologia moderna. Milano, Italy: Gruppo Editoriale Fabbri, 1980.",
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"citation": "\"1993 Annual Report.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 81, no. 6 (1994): 143-218.",
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"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161457"
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"citation": "Brown, David Alan, Peter Humfrey, Mauro Lucco, and Augusto Gentili. Lorenzo Lotto: Rediscovered Master of the Renaissance. Washington DC: National Gallery of Art, 1997.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 47, fig. 6",
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"citation": "Aikema, Bernard, Beverly Louise Brown, and Giovanna Nepi Scire\u0300. Renaissance Venice and the North: Crosscurrents in the Time of Bellini, Du\u0308rer, and Titian. Milano, Italy: Bompiani, 1999.",
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"citation": "Rossi, Francesco. Bergamo, l'altra Venezia: il Rinascimento negli anni di Lorenzo Lotto, 1510-1530. Milano, Italy: Skira, 2001.",
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"citation": "Dezuanni, Elsa, Eugenio Manzato, and Giovanni Carlo Federico Villa. Lorenzo Lotto: emozioni nascoste. Crocetta del Montello, Treviso, Italy: Antiga, 2011.",
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"citation": "Frangi, Francesco and Maria Cristina Passoni. Attorno a Lotto: Naturalismo e Psicologia nel Ritratto Rinascimentale. Milano: Skira, 2017.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 30, fig. 8",
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"citation": "Dal Pozzolo, Enrico Maria. Lorenzo Lotto:Il Richiamo delle Marche: Luoghi, Tempi e Persone. Milano: Skira, 2018.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 75; Reproduced: p. 76, fig. 5",
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"citation": "Dal Pozzolo, E. M. \"Two Paitnings of Samson by Lorenzo Lotto at Charlecote Park.\" The Burlington Magazine 160. no. 1385 (Aug. 2018): 640-645.",
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"citation": "Dossier de l'art. \"Exposition a Londres: Lorenzo Lotto Portraitiste.\" Dossier de l'art 264, (Nov. 2018): 4-13.",
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"url": null
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"citation": "du Bourg, Alexis Marle. \"Lorenzo Lottoe Portaitiste.\" Dossier De L'Art, 364 (November 2018): 4-13.",
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"citation": "Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art: Picture Book No. 4 . [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1952.",
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