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Pietro da Cortona

Study for the Head of St. Michael

1633
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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

The fresco for which this drawing was made as a preparatory study joins works of art by Peter Paul Rubens as well as relics of the Saint Philip Neri in the Chiesa Nuova in Rome.

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