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"description": "The dramatic contrasts of light and dark reveal the long aftereffects of Caravaggio in Naples. Yet, the elegant forms, rich colors, and perfected body of Christ have far more affinities with the idealizing strand of Italian art in the 1600s and 1700s. Solimena sought to improve on nature, based on the study of antiquity, aiming to create a work of grandeur and nobility meant to inspire reverence and devotion appropriate to the holy subject.",
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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.",
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"citation": "Spinosa, Nicola. Pittura Napoletana Del Settecento : Dal Barocco Al Rococ\u00f2. Napola: Electa, 1986.",
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"citation": "Yale University Art Gallery, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, and Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. A Taste for Angels : Neapolitan Painting in North America, 1650\u20131750. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Art Gallery, 1987.",
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"citation": "Marandel, J. Patrice. \"Dealing and Scholarship: The Heim Gallery, London, 1966-1995.\" In Buying Baroque: Italian Seventeenth-Century Paintings Come to America. Bowron, Edgar Peters. ed. University Park, Pennsylvania : The Frick Collection, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2017.",
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