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        "tombstone": "Study for the \"Essequie\" Conducted in San Lorenzo, Florence, in 1637 in Honour of Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II, 1637. Alfonso Parigi (Italian, 1606\u20131656). Pen and brown ink and brown wash with graphite and accents of pink, purple-grey and deep blue-black wash; sheet: 48.5 x 65.8 cm (19 1/8 x 25 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund, 2011.192",
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        "title": "Study for the \"Essequie\" Conducted in San Lorenzo, Florence, in 1637 in Honour of Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II",
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                    "title": "The Novel and the Bizarre: Salvator Rosa\u2019s Scenes of Witchcraft",
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        "description": "Alfonso Parigi was the official court architect for the Medici, taking over after the death of his father, the great engineer, architect, and designer Giulio Parigi. Testifying to the Medici's interest in cultivating a culture of the macabre, this sheet is an elaborate study for the <em>essequie</em> (funerary rites) for the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II. Skulls and skeletons commingle with angels and garlands, and black draperies would have been hung to transform the church into a strange, macabre world. The Medici also commissioned artists and designers to create <em>apparati</em>, theatrical stage settings that were similarly elaborate, hell-like scenes. Designed only three years before the young Rosa would come to the court, this haunting sheet displays the grotesque artistic fantasia that was in vogue in Florence when Salvatore Rosa arrived.",
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