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Saint Bernardino of Siena Preaching from an Open Book

1570/90
Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white (partially oxidized), on blue-gray laid paper, laid down on brown laid paper
17.5 × 14.4 cm (6.9 × 5.7 in)

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