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        "title": "Study of a Flayed Torso (verso)",
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                "inscription": "signed, lower right, in brown ink: demano de bar / tolomeo aretino / 1554 ; by artist(?), upper right, in brown ink: [5?] [over- and underlined] ; by artist(?), lower left, in brown ink: N\u00b0 9 ; by artist(?), lower right, in brown ink: [N. 15?] ",
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                    "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": "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 (verso), he drew a flayed torso.",
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                "citation": "Peters, Emily. \u201cMaster/Apprentice: Imitation and Inspiration in the Renaissance.\u201d <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine </em>59, no. 5 (September/October 2019): 8-9.",
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