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"tombstone": "Rib Cages, early 1540s. Battista Franco (Italian, c. 1510\u20131561). Pen and brown ink; sheet: 11.6 x 23.8 cm (4 9/16 x 9 3/8 in.); secondary support: 11.6 x 23.8 cm (4 9/16 x 9 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Cassirer, 1964.383",
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"title": "Rib Cages",
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"title": "Year in Review (1964)",
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"title": "The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles",
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"id": 340443,
"title": "Master/Apprentice: Imitation and Inspiration in the Renaissance",
"description": "Master/Apprentice: Imitation and Inspiration in the Renaissance. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 13, 2019-February 23, 2020).",
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"description": "CMA, The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles (Mar. 6-Apr. 22, 1979), no. 49, illus., pp. 16, 23, 59.",
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"description": "Sir Thomas Lawrence, London (Lugt 2445, lower left, blind stamped). Samuel Woodburn, London (according to departmental cataloguing sheet, sale 4-8 June 1860, Christie's London; Lugt 2584, not stamped). Boguslaw Jolles, Dresden and Vienna (Lugt 381a, lower left, in blue ink; according to departmental cataloguing sheet, sale 28-31 October 1895, Munich). Prof. Otto Neubauer, Munich and London (according to departmental card). Mr. and Mrs. Claude Cassirer, Cleveland",
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"description": "Michelangelo was among the first artists in Europe to attend a human dissection and to adopt anatomical knowledge as a necessity for depicting the human figure. These drawings by Battista Franco reflect the increased\u2014and slightly macabre\u2014interest in the interior workings of the human body inspired in part by Michelangelo\u2019s example. Here, the groupings of rib cages, though rendered accurately, are placed into decorative piles. The odd assembly vacillates between scientific study and a symbolic memento mori, or reminder of death.",
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"citation": "Richards, Louise S. \u201cDrawings by Battista Franco.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 52, no. 8 (October 1965): 106\u2013112.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 109; Reproduced: p. 111, fig. 5",
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"citation": "Kornell, Monique. \u201cAnatomical Drawings by Battista Franco.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 76, no. 9 (November 1989): 302\u2013325.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 314-315, fig. 14, Cover",
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