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"title": "The Sacrifice of Isaac, Tobias and the Angel, The Angels Appearing to Abraham, Abraham Welcoming the Three Angels (painting series)",
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"measurements": "Framed: 71 x 90.5 x 5.5 cm (27 15/16 x 35 5/8 x 2 3/16 in.); Unframed: 56.5 x 75.5 cm (22 1/4 x 29 3/4 in.)",
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"description": "The Allure of La Serenissima: Eighteenth-Century Venetian Art. Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK (organizer) (September 9, 2010-January 2, 2011).",
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"description": "This series of paintings predominantly tells the Old Testament story of Abraham and Isaac, and each of the canvases treats the interaction of humans and angels. In three works, angels appear to Abraham and, in one particularly dramatic canvas, an angel intercepts Abraham before he sacrifices his own son. Like another work in this series, Tobias and the Angels, the Sacrifice of Isaac is a narrative about fathers and sons as well as obedience inspired by faith.",
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"citation": "Pallucchini, Rodolfo. L'Arte di Giovanni Battista Piazzetta. Bologna: Giuseppe Maylender, editore, 1934.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: P. 34-35, n. 9",
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"citation": "Morassi, Antonio. \"Conclusioni su Antonio e Francesco Guardi.\" Emporium CXIV (November 1951): 194-219.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: P. 201, figs. 7-8; Mentioned: P. 208",
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"citation": "Morassi, Antonio. \"Una mostra del Settecento Veneziano a Detroit.\" Arte Veneta: Rivista di Storia dell'Arte VII (1953): 49-62.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: P. 62",
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"citation": "Morassi, Antonio. \"A Signed Drawing by Antonio Guardi and the Problem of the Guardi Brothers.\" The Burlington Magazine 95, no. 605 (August 1953): 260-67.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: P. 267, figs. 27, 29",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/871221"
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"citation": "Levey, Michael. The Eighteenth Century Italian Schools. London, United Kingdom: Publications Dept., National Gallery, 1956.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 88",
"url": null
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"citation": "Coe, Nancy \"Four Paintings by Giovanni Antonio Guardi.\" The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art 44, no.9 (November, 1957): 198-203.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p.200-201",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25142240"
},
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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. 429",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n79"
},
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"citation": "Morassi, Antonio. \"Pellegrini e Guardi.\" Emporium CXXVIII, no. 767 (November 1958): 195-212.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: P. 205, 209",
"url": null
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"citation": "Watson, Francis J. B. \"A Series of Turqueries by Francesco Guardi.\" News XXIV (Fall 1961): 3-13.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: P. 4-5",
"url": null
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"citation": "Valcanover, Francesco. G. Guardi; le storie di Tobiolo nella chiesa di S. Raffaele Arcangelo in Venezia. Milano: Arti Grafiche Ricordi, 1964.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: opp.pl. III",
"url": null
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"citation": "Zampetti, Pietro. Mostra dei Guardi; catalogo della Mostra. Venezia, Italy: Edizioni Alfieri, 1965.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 120",
"url": null
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"citation": "Heinemann, Fritz. \"Mostra Dei Guardi : Ausstellung in Venedig, Juni Bis September 1965.\" Kunstchronik / Hrsg. Vom Zentralinstitut Fu\u0308r Kunstgeschichte 18 (1965): 223-246.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: P. 238",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "Pallucchini, Rodolfo. \"Note alla Mostra dei Guardi,\" Arte Veneta: Rivista di Storia dell'Arte XIX (1965): 215-237.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: P. 228",
"url": null
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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.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 145-146",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n169"
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"citation": "Rossacher, Kurt. Visionen des Barock: Entwu\u0308rfe aus der Sammlung Kurt Rossacher : Ausstellung in der Residenzgalerie Salzburg vom 28. Mai bis 31. August 1966 (Meisterwerke aus o\u0308sterr. Privatbesitz I). Salzburg, Austria: Residenzgalerie Salzburg, 1966.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 66",
"url": null
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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. 145-146",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n169"
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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.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 97-98, 255-256, 265, 574",
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"citation": "Morassi, Antonio. Guardi. Antonio e Francesco Guardi. Venezia: Alfieri, 1973.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: Vol. I, P. 83, P. 109, nos. 11-14; Reproduced: Vol. II, figs., 6-9",
"url": null
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"citation": "Rossi Bortolatto, Luigina. L'opera completa di Francesco Guardi. Milano, Italy: Rizzoli, 1974.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 88",
"url": null
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"citation": "Lurie, Ann T., Rudiger Klessmann, and Louise S. Richards. Johann Liss: Ausstellung unter dem Protektorat der Pra\u0308sidentin des Deutschen Bundestages Frau Annemarie Renger und des International Council of Museums (ICOM), Augsburg, 1975. ",
"page_number": "Mentioned: P. 116, n. 6; P. 176, no. E97; Reproduced: fig. 168",
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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.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 143",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n163"
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"citation": "Martini, Egidio. La pittura del settecento veneto. Udine, Italy: Istituto per L'enciclopedi del Friuli Venezia Giulia, 1981.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 398, fig. 278",
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.",
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"citation": "George, Hardy. La Serenissima: Eighteenth-Century Venetian Art from North American Collections. Oklahoma City, OK: Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 2010.",
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