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Bartolomeo Biscaino

The Virgin Adoring the Infant Jesus

1655
Etching on paper
24.5 × 18.3 cm (9.6 × 7.2 in)

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Bartolomeo Biscaino was a Genoese painter, drafts­man, and printmaker influenced by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione and Guido Reni. The artist made fewer than 40 prints before his early death from the plague.

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