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"inscription": "center, in plate: IOEL ; VERSO, upper center, in graphite: Lot 56[on paper strip glued to edge]/ No 7[?] ; upper right, in graphite: 31 ; lower left, in graphite: 23661 ; lower center, in graphite: Lot[on paper strip glued to edge] ; lower right, in graphite: L. a L. 44ii (of v)[on paper strip glued to edge ; lower right, in graphite: 121688.50 Joel[on paper strip glued to edge] ; lower right, in graphite: B. 18 I/2[on paper strip glued to edge]",
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"title": "Mannerism: Italian, French, and Netherlandish Prints, 1520-1620",
"description": "Mannerism: Italian, French, and Netherlandish Prints, 1520-1620. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 3-October 26, 1997).",
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"title": "Master/Apprentice: Imitation and Inspiration in the Renaissance",
"description": "Master/Apprentice: Imitation and Inspiration in the Renaissance. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 13, 2019-February 23, 2020).",
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"description": "Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; 8/3/97 - 10/26/97. \"Mannerism: Italian, French, and Netherlandish Prints, 1520-1620.\"",
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"description": "During the 1500s Michelangelo\u2019s Sistine Chapel ceiling was rarely open to the public and thus for the most part inaccessible. Artists, however, were generally allowed to visit the chapel to study and make drawings from the paintings. Giorgio Ghisi did so in the 1540s and created engravings of six of the chapel\u2019s prophets and sybils. His Prophet Joel accurately reproduces the pose, costume elements, and architectural detail of the figure in a voluminous engraving technique, with dramatic darks and lights that evoke the three-dimensional forms of sculpture. Engravings such as this spread Michelangelo\u2019s inventions throughout Europe, but in pieces: one still had to visit the chapel to see the whole composition.",
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"citation": "Turner, Evan H. \u201cAcquisitions: 1990.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 78, no. 2 (February 1991): 30\u201345.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 35, no. 41",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25161314"
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