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"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p.336 (As Bernardo Parentino)",
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"citation": "Francis, Henry S. \u201cRare Italian Drawings\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 45, no. 8 (1958): 195\u2013202.",
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"citation": "Wa\u017abi\u0144ski, Zygmunt. \u201cA Propos de Quelques Dessins de Parentino Pour Le Couvent de Santa Giustina.\u201d Arte Veneta, no. XVII (1963): 7\u2013173.",
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"citation": "Wa\u017abi\u0144ski, Zygmunt. \u201cPour Le Premier Portrait de Bernardo Parentino.\u201d Saggi e Memorie Di Storia Dell\u2019arte 5 (1966): 7\u2013173.",
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"citation": "Forlani Tempesti, Anna. Italian Fifteenth- to Seventeenth-Century Drawings. Vol. 5. The Robert Lehman Collection. Metropolitan Museum of Art; Princeton University Press, 1991.",
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"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p.78-80, no.15 (as Bernardo Parentino da Parenzo)",
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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.27, 42, 44; n.38, fig.44 (f.19v) (As Bernardo Parentino)",
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"citation": "Degenhart, Bernhard, Annegrit Schmitt, Hans-Joachim Eberhardt, et al. \u201cVerona Badile-Album: Studiensammlung Einer Veroneser K\u00fcnstlerwerkstatt.\u201d In Verona Badile-Album: Studiensammlung Einer Veroneser K\u00fcnstlerwerkstatt, vol. 3, Corpus Der Italienischen Zeichnungen 1300-1450. Biering & Brinkmann, 2010.",
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"citation": "Karet, Evelyn. The Antonio II Badile Album of Drawings: The Origins of Collecting Drawings in Early Modern Northern Italy. With Peter Windows and Alessandra Zamperini. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2014.",
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