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"tombstone": "Adoration of the Magi, 1642. Guido Reni (Italian, 1575\u20131642). Oil on canvas; framed: 378 x 280.5 x 10.5 cm (148 13/16 x 110 7/16 x 4 1/8 in.); unframed: 367.3 x 268.6 cm (144 5/8 x 105 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 1969.132",
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"measurements": "Framed: 378 x 280.5 x 10.5 cm (148 13/16 x 110 7/16 x 4 1/8 in.); Unframed: 367.3 x 268.6 cm (144 5/8 x 105 3/4 in.)",
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"title": "Year in Review: 1969",
"description": "Year in Review: 1969. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 27-February 22, 1970).",
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"description": "(P.&D. Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., London), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art 1",
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"1 Colnaghi\u2019s records do not indicate the date they acquired the painting from Princess Corsini, but it was likely by December 1968, when Roderic Thesiger of Colnaghi wrote to Sherman Lee about the painting.
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"date": "by 1968-1969",
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"description": "Corsini Collection, Florence, to Colnaghi 1",
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"1 When Prince Carlo Felice Barberini-Colonna di Sciarra, Duca di Castelvecchio, died in 1880, his collection was divided between his two daughters, Anna [1840-1911], who married Prince Tommaso Corsini, and Luisa [1844-1906], who married Tommaso\u2019s younger brother, Pietro Francesco Corsini. It was probably at this time that the paintings entered the Corsini collection in Florence.
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"date": "Probably 1880-by 1968",
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"description": "Barberini-Colonna di Sciarra collection, Rome, by descent to the Corsini collection",
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"1 In 1812 the Barberini collection was split between the Barberini and Colonna di Sciarra branches of the family; after the 1728 marriage of Cornelia Barberini to Giulio Cesare Colonna di Sciarra, the family was known as Barberini-Colonna, or Colonna di Sciarra. The Casa Barberini inventory of 1844 lists the painting, \u201cVenuta dei Magi,\u201d as by Reni (no. 464). The \u201cF92\u201d inscribed in the lower left corner of the painting is the fidecommesso number: These painted numbers were assigned c. 1816 upon the establishment of a fidecommesso (entailment), which meant that the Barberini inheritance could not be broken up, but had to remain intact from generation to generation.
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],
"date": "Probably 1812-1880",
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"description": "Cardinal Francesco Barberini [1597 \u20131679] by inheritance within the Barberini family, Barberini Palace, Rome, by descent to the Barberini-Colonna di Sciarra collection 1",
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"1 A receipt dated April 21, 1645, documenting the final payment of 34 scudi to Giuseppe Reni, the artist\u2019s heir, records the acquisition of the painting by the Barberini family: \u201cTo Giuseppe Reni thirty-four scudi are [paid] for the remaining and whole payment of the price of a painting, done by Guido Reni, which represents the representation of the Magi, delivered to our said service [?] Guardarobba\u2026this day, April 21, 1645\u201d (Biblioteca Vaticana, Archivio Barberini, Armadio 42, Registro di Mandati 1642-1648, Cardinal Francesco Barberini Mandato No. 2666 (new series)). Due to its unfinished state, the painting was not included in the official inventories of the Barberini collection until 1844, when it was listed as \u201cVenuta dei Magi, Guido Reni, al. p.i 15, lar. P.i 12.\u201d
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"description": "This large altarpiece was in the artist's studio when he died, and parts of the composition appear incomplete. Some figures lack color, and Reni never finished the wooden structure. The silvery ground layer appears everywhere, as do his changes to the composition, such as the dog's head above the angel's right knee and the adjustment to Christ's right leg, covered in blue. However, Reni's death does not fully explain the unfinished quality. Toward the end of his career, he increasingly painted in a loose and sketchy manner\u2014popular with collectors at the time\u2014an approach implying that concrete forms could never depict the ideal, spiritual world Reni aimed to present.",
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"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \"Guido Reni, The Adoration of the Magi.\" The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art LVIII no. 10 (December, 1971):278-289.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: cover; p. 278, fig. 1",
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"citation": "Emiliani, Andrea. \"Un Viaggio Sconosciuto di Francesco Gessi.\" Arte Antica e Moderna I (1958): 53-57.
Attributed to Francesco Gessi.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: P. 57; reproduced: pl. 26b",
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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.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 394; Mentioned: p. 395-396",
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"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \"The Year in Review for 1969.\" The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art LVII no. 1 (January, 1970):2-51.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 2, fig. 149; Mentioned: p. 49, no. 149",
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"citation": "Butler, Joseph T. \"The American Way with Art.\" The Connoisseur 175, no. 700 (June 1970): 158-163.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: P. 161",
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"citation": "Garboli, Cesare, Guido Reni, and Edi Baccheschi. L'opera completa di Guido Reni. Milano, Italy: Rizzoli, 1971.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: no. 202; Mentioned: p. 114-115",
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"citation": "Sherman Lee, \u201cGuido Reni: The Adoration of the Magi,\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 53, no. 10 (Dec. 1971): 278-289.",
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"citation": "Lavin, Marilyn Aronberg. Seventeenth-Century Barberini Documents and Inventories of Art. New York, NY: New York University Press, 1975.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 32, Doc. 270, p. 511, p. 535",
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"citation": "Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, and Marilyn Aronberg Lavin. Seventeenth-Century Barberini Documents and Inventories of Art. New York: New York University Press, 1975.",
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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. 137",
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"citation": "Pepper, D. Stephen. \"A New Late Work by Guido Reni for Edinburgh and His Late Manner Re-Evaluated.\" The Burlington Magazine 121, no. 916 (1979): 418-25.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: P.424, n. 30",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/879677"
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"citation": "Reni, Guido, and D. Stephen Pepper. Guido Reni: A Complete Catalogue of His Works with an Introductory Text. Oxford: Phaidon, 1984.",
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"citation": "Myers, Bernard S. Encyclopedia of World Art. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1987.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: vol. XVI, pl. XL,",
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"citation": "Salvy, Ge\u0301rard-Julien. Guido Reni. Paris, France: Gallimard, 2001.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 158, fig. 208",
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"citation": "Olszewski, Edward J. The Inventory of Paintings of Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni (1667-1740). New York, NY: Peter Lang, 2004.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 327, fig. 43",
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"citation": "Olszewski, Edward J. Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni (1667-1740) and the Vatican Tomb of Pope Alexander VIII. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2004.",
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"citation": "Malvasia, Carlo Cesare, Elizabeth Cropper and.Lorenzo Pericolo. Felsina Pittrice/ Lives of the Bolognese Painters: A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation. Washington [D.C.]: Published for the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts; London: Harvey Miller, 2012.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 428, fig. 294",
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"citation": "Christiansen, Keith. \"Le Creation tardive d'une collection de peintures baroques au Metropolitan Museum of Art.\" In Aux origines d'un gou\u0302t: la peinture baroque aux E\u0301tats-Unis = Creating the taste for baroque painting in America. Anna Ottani Cavina, and Keith Christiansen, 61-73. [Paris?] : Paris Tableau, 2015.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 64, 70",
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"citation": "Grassi, Marco. \"The American View of the Forgotten Century of Italian Painting: Reminiscences of a Conservator and Art Dealer.\" In Buying Baroque: Italian Seventeenth-Century Paintings Come to America. Edited by Edgar Peters Bowron, 40-53. University Park, Pennsylvania: The Frick Collection, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2017.",
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"citation": "\"Accessions of American and Canadian Museums.\" The Art Quarterly XXXIII, no. 3 (Autumn 1970): 318-338.",
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