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"did_you_know": "In this painting, the reflective quality of the jug enhances its naturalism: notice how it throws light onto the boy's shirt.",
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"description": "Together with his brother Agostino and cousin Lodovico, Annibale Carracci introduced artistic reforms in Italy based on close observation of the natural world. Annibale\u2019s innovative and highly influential style steered a path between the smooth artificiality of Mannerism\u2013\u2013in which style and technique took precedence over fidelity to nature\u2013\u2013and the heightened drama of paintings by Caravaggio. In this remarkable early work, the coarse surface of the canvas, the inelegant subject matter, and the striking distortion of forms from light passing through glass all speak to his naturalistic approach.",
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"citation": "National Gallery of Art (U.S.), Pinacoteca nazionale (Bologna, Italy), and Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). The Age of Correggio and the Carracci: Emilian Painting of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1986.",
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"citation": "Brignati, G. \"l\"Image de le Tableau, dans la Peinture du Seicento.\" In Seicento: Le Sie\u0300cle de Caravage dans les Collections Franc\u0327aises:[exposition] Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 11 octobre 1988-2 janvier 1989, Palazzo reale, Milan, mars-avril 1989. Paris: Editions de la Re\u0301union des muse\u0301es nationaux, 1988.",
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"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 110-111, fig. 39",
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"citation": "Christiansen, Keith \"Working from life in the Accademia dei Desiderosi,\" In Scritti in Onore di Giuliano Briganti. Giuliano Briganti, and Marco Bona Castellotti, eds., 135-145. Milano: Longanesi, 1990.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: P. 136, 138, 144; reproduced: P. 142, no. 10",
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"citation": "Sotheby's (Firm). Sotheby's Art at Auction. London: Sotheby's Publications, 1993.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: P. 71",
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"citation": "Ginzburg, Silvia. \"The Portrait of Agucchi at York Reconsidered.\" The Burlington Magazine 136, no. 1090 (January 1994): 4-14.",
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"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/885693"
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"citation": "Emiliani, Andrea, and Grazia Agostini. La pittura in Emilia e in Romagna. [Milan]: Electa, 1994.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 26",
"url": null
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, \u201cCleveland Museum Acquires Major Carracci Painting,\u201d January 19, 1994, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.",
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"citation": "Morandotti, Alessandro. Pittura italiana antica: artisti e opere del Seicento e del Settecento. Milano, Italy: Fenice 2000, 1995.",
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"citation": "Wachter, George. \"An Ongoing Secret: The Pleasure of Old Master Paintings.\" In Sotheby's Art at Auction, 18-21. London: Sotheby's Publications, 1996.",
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"citation": "Whitaker, Lucy, and Christopher Baker. \u201cChrist Church Picture Gallery.\u201d Apollo: The International Magazine for Collectors 145 (May 1997): 27\u201330.",
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"citation": "Napoleone, Caterina. \"Dedicated to Annibale.\" FMR: The Magazine of Franco Maria Ricci 115 (Apr/May 2002): 40-42.",
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"citation": "Iacono, Margaret. Masterpieces of European Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art. New York,NY: The Frick Collection, 2006.",
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"citation": "Dickerson, C. D. Raw Painting: The Butcher's Shop by Annibale Carracci. Fort Worth, TX: Kimbell Art Museum, 2010.",
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.",
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