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Giovanni Lanfranco

A Bearded Prophet in Glory Attended by a Bishop, Two Other Male Saints, and Angels (Design for a Section of a Dome)

1634–35
Black chalk, partly reworked by the artist in pen and brown ink
29.2 × 26.2 cm (11.5 × 10.3 in)

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