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Galeazzo Alessi

Design for a Tabernacle Surmounted by Christ on the Cross and Praying Figures (the Virgin and Saint John?)

1512–72
Pen and brown ink over traces of preliminary constructions in graphite, brush and light brown wash
36.1 × 28.2 cm (14.2 × 11.1 in)

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