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"citation": "Ames, Winslow. Great Drawings of All Time: Italian. Vol. 1, edited by Ira Moskowitz and Victoria Thorson. Great Drawings of All Time. Shorewood Publishers, 1962.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: n.78 (as School of Mantegna)",
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"citation": "Jaff\u00e9, Michael. \u201cThe Figurative Arts of the West c. 1400-1800 at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio.\u201d Apollo: The International Art Magazine, no. 78 (December 1963): 457\u201367.",
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"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p.65-67; n.12 (as follower of Andrea Mantegna)",
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"citation": "Karet, Evelyn, and Peter Windows. \u201cThe \u2018Antonio II Badile Album\u2019 of Drawings: A Reconstruction of an Early Sixteenth Century Collection.\u201d Arte Lombarda, no. 145 (3) (2005): 23\u201356.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p.26, 41; fig.39",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/43132570"
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"citation": "Degenhart, Bernhard, Annegrit Schmitt, Hans-Joachim Eberhardt, et al. Verona Badile-Album: Studiensammlung Einer Veroneser K\u00fcnstlerwerkstatt. Vol. 3, Corpus Der Italienischen Zeichnungen 1300-1450. Biering & Brinkmann, 2010.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p.25, 45 (f.16v), 164-169; n.808, fig.100 (as Bernardino Butinone)",
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"citation": "Windows, Peter. \"The Attributional Inscriptions in the Antonio II Badile Album of Drawings.\" Master Drawings, 56, no.4 (Winter 2018): 443-462.",
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