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"title": "Year in Review: 1979",
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"did_you_know": "Felice Pasquale Baciocchi, the father of the subject of this sculpture, was an avid violinist and studied with violin virtuoso Niccol\u00f2 Paganini for a decade.",
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"description": "To extend power across the continent, Napoleon arranged for his sisters to marry into the courts of Europe. The sitter is his niece, daughter of the Grand-Duke of Tuscany (the bee on her cup is a Napoleonic emblem). While the girl\u2019s nakedness might startle us today, in the early 1800s depicting children nude emphasized their purity and innocence. The work takes its cues from ancient sculpture, and while the pet dog adds a note of tenderness, it also refers to Diana, goddess of the moon and hunt.",
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"url": "https://archive.org/details/cmapr2737"
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"citation": "Lee, Sherman E. \"The Year in Review for 1979.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 67, no. 3 (1980): 58-99.",
"page_number": "cat. 18, p. 95, repr. p. 68",
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"citation": "Luxenberg, Alisa. \u201cBefitting the Bonapartes: Bartolini\u2019s Portrait of Napol\u00e9one Baciocchi as a \u2018Naturalized\u2019 Mythological Allusion.\u201d Cleveland Studies in the History of Art 2 (1997): 16\u201331.",
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