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        "title": "Two Studies of a Flayed Man (recto)",
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                "inscription": "signed, lower right, in brown ink: demano de bart / aretino .  1554 . [underlined] ; by artist(?), lower center, in brown ink: N\u00b0 10 ; lower right, in graphite [Bartolo\u00b0  T?] [partially masked]",
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                {
                    "id": 340443,
                    "title": "Master/Apprentice: Imitation and Inspiration in the Renaissance",
                    "description": "<i>Master/Apprentice: Imitation and Inspiration in the Renaissance</i>. 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. 66, illus. pp. 10, 23, 35, 54.",
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        "description": "In order to understand the movement of the human form, Michelangelo was known to have studied flayed bodies (cadavers with their skin removed) and in fact made several drawings of them. Bartolommeo da Arezzo\u2014a follower of Michelangelo working a generation after the master\u2014became obsessed with studying corpses, even stealing them from local graveyards. On one side of this sheet (recto), he drew two views of the lower part of the same body, which is half flayed and shown hanging above the ground.",
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