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Giovanni Battista Paggi

Christ Receiving the Virgin into Heaven

1554–1627
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white and light pink, over black chalk, on blue-green paper
31.3 × 23 cm (12.3 × 9.1 in)

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