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Pietro da Cortona

Design for a Thesis Print with an Allegory of Knowledge and Portrait of Cardinal Antonio Barberini the Younger (1607–1671)

ca. 1635
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white, over black chalk, on brown paper
52 × 77.2 cm (20.5 × 30.4 in)

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