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"tombstone": "Bacchanal, mid-1600s. Circle of Pietro da Cortona (Italian, 1596\u20131669). Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over black chalk, heightened with white gouache; incised, framing lines in brown ink over traces of black chalk; sheet: 26.3 x 43.5 cm (10 3/8 x 17 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection, 1954.688",
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"title": "Bacchanal",
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"creation_date_earliest": 1650,
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"inscription": "VERSO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT, upper center, in graphite: 22 [underlined] , lower left, in brown ink: 15.t [crossed out in graphite] ; lower right, in graphite: Copy after Pal. Barberini ? / J. Sch / c f Ciro Ferri FR ; lower right, in graphite: P.da Cortona",
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"title": "Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection",
"description": "Italian Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 16, 1986-March 1, 1987).",
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"title": "Drawings: Discoveries in the Collection",
"description": "Drawings: Discoveries in the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 7-October 28, 1990).",
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"id": 311462,
"title": "Concept, Dogma and Feeling: Italian Drawings 1550-1650",
"description": "Concept, Dogma and Feeling: Italian Drawings 1550-1650. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 20, 1991).",
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"id": 683420,
"title": "In Vino Veritas (In Wine, Truth)",
"description": "In Vino Veritas (In Wine, Truth). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 7, 2025-January 11, 2026).",
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"description": "Preview of Outstanding Recent Accessions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (April 3, 1955).",
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"description": "Emery May Holden Norweb (Mrs. R. Henry Norweb) [1895\u20131984], Cleveland, OH, given to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH",
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"date": "?\u20131954",
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"date": "December 4, 1954\u2013",
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"did_you_know": "Goats were commonly associated with sinful behavior, making them a common element in Bacchic scenes.",
"description": "Here, a bacchanalia is in full swing with its required cast of characters: Bacchus, Roman god of wine, at right; Silenus, atop the wine barrel, always ready for another glass; and numerous bacchants consisting of maenads, satyrs, musicians, children, and a goat, all within an Italian landscape. This drawing may have been a design for a fresco or painting. Depictions of bacchanalia were often meant for dining spaces, where the elite of society could playfully mirror the revelries portrayed in their own enjoyment of food and wine.",
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"updated_at": "2026-05-01 06:49:20.691000"
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