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"tombstone": "Portrait of a Youth as Saint Sebastian, late 1480s. Marco d'Oggiono (Italian, 1460-1524). Oil on wood, transferred to pressed wood; framed: 47.5 x 41 x 4 cm (18 11/16 x 16 1/8 x 1 9/16 in.); unframed: 30.5 x 24 cm (12 x 9 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1986.9",
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"description": "Stanley Mortimer, Sr. (1890-1947), New York (as attributed to de Predis)",
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"did_you_know": "While Marco d'Oggiono made numerous copies of the masterpieces of his teacher Leonardo da Vinci, this is an original composition.",
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"description": "Sebastian, a bodyguard for the ancient Roman emperor Diocletian, was shot with arrows and was eventually drowned for his commitment to Christianity. While the arrow alludes to Saint Sebastian, the young man\u2019s clothing dates to the late 1400s, indicating that this is a contemporary portrait, rather than an image of the historical saint. This haunting image was influenced by the paintings of Leonardo da Vinci (1452\u20131519), particularly in the artist\u2019s use of smoky shadows (called sfumato) to model the flesh. It was painted by Marco d\u2019Oggiono, a Milanese artist who worked in Leonardo\u2019s studio.",
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"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 82, fig. 8",
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"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 45-46",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159974"
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"citation": "Brown, David Alan. \u201cSome Observations about the Exhibition \u2018Disegni e dipinti Leonardeschi dale Collezioni Milanesi\u2019.\u201d Raccolta Vinciana 23 (1989): 27-32.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced p. 29, 31 ill.",
"url": null
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"citation": "Baudequin, Jean-Christophe, in Disegno: Les dessins italiens du Mus\u00e9e de Rennes. Patrick Ramade et al. Exh. Cat. Galleria Estense, Modena, and Mus\u00e9e des Beaux-Arts, Rennes, 1990.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 30, under no. 9",
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"citation": "Brown, David Alan. \u201cThe Master of the \u2018Madonna Litta\u2019.\u201d in Maria Teresa Fiorio and Pietro C. Marani, eds, I leonardeschi a Milano: fortuna e collezionismo (Ente Raccolta Vinciana, Atti del Convegno Internazionale, 1990), 25-34. Milan: Electa, 1991.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 28, 33; note 28",
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"citation": "Chiyo Ishikawa, \u201cLeonardo: Observer and Observed,\u201d in Leonardo Lives: The Codex Leicester and Leonardo da Vinci\u2019s Legacy of Art and Science, 21-41. Chiyo Ishikawa and Trevor Fairbrother. Exh. cat. Seattle Art Museum, in association with University of Washington Press, 1997.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 28\u201330, ill. fig. 1",
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"citation": "Fiorio, Maria Teresa. \u201cIn margine al de Predis.\u201d In Marco Rossi and Alessandro Rovetta, eds, Studi di storia dell\u2019arte in onore di Maria Teresa Gatti Perer, 149-155. Milano: Vita e pensiero, 1999.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 154, note 16",
"url": null
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"citation": "Bora, Giulio. \u201cLes l\u00e9onardesques: L\u00e9onard de Vinci et les \u2018l\u00e9onardesques\u2019 lombards.\u201d In L\u00e9onard de Vinci: dessins et manuscrits, 311-334. Franc\u0327oise Viatte, Varena Forcione et al. Exh. cat. Mus\u00e9e du Louvre, Paris, in association with Re\u0301union des muse\u0301es nationaux, May 5-July 14, 2003.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: fig. 96; Mentioned: p. 320\u2013321",
"url": null
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"citation": "Koos, Marianne. \u201cAmore dolce-amaro: Giorgione und das ideale Knabenbildnis der venezianischen Renaissancemalerei.\u201d Marburger Jahrbuch f\u00fcr Kusntwissenschaft 33 (2006): 113-174",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 122",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/40026514"
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"citation": "Passoni, Maria Cristina, In Capolavori da scoprire: la collezione Borromeo. Mauro Natale and Andrea Di Lorenzo, eds. Exh. cat. Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan, in association with Milan: Skira, 2006.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 170\u2013172, under no. 16",
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"citation": "Ballarin, Alessandro, with the collaboration of Marialucia Menegatti and Barbara Maria Savy. Leonardo a Milano. Problemi di leonardismo Milanese tra Quattrocento e Cinquecento. Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio prima della pala Casio, 4 vols [Verona]: Edizioni dell'Aurora, 2010.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: vol. 1, p. 17\u201319, 31, 32, 661, 662, 663, 664, 665, 671, 675",
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"citation": "Koos, Marianne. \"Das Martyrium Der Liebe: Ambiguit\u00e4t in Dosso Dossis \u201aHeiligem Sebastian\u2018.\" Marburger Jahrbuch F\u00fcr Kunstwissenschaft 38 (2011): 43-73.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 55-56; Reproduced: fig. 15",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/23645834"
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"citation": "Bruel, Marie-Elisabeth and Jean-Thomas Bruel. La chapelle de Jean II de Bourbon a\u0300 la colle\u0301giale de Moulins: chef-d'\u0153uvre oublie\u0301 de Hugo van der Goes et manifeste du pouvoir. Moulins: Socie\u0301te\u0301 bourbonnaise des e\u0301tudes locales 2014.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 126, no. 14; p. 127, no. 15; Mentioned: p. 125 &129, Note 259",
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"citation": "Quattrini, Cristina, in Raffaello e l\u2019eco del Mito. Maria Cristina Rodeschini Galati, ed. Exh. cat. Bergamo, Accademia Carrara, in association with Venezia: Marsilio, 2018.",
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"citation": "Gebhardt, Johannes, Frank Zo\u0308llner, Leonardo, and Jack Wasserman. Paragone: Leonardo in comparison. 2021, 36.",
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"citation": "Donetti, Dario, Hana Gru\u0308ndler, Mandy Richter, and Alessandro Nova. Viaggio nel Nord Italia: studi di cultura visiva in onore di Alessandro Nova. Firenze : Centro Di, 2022.",
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