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Giorgio Vasari

Allegory of Eternity

1544/45
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk, heightened with white gouache, on blue laid paper, squared for transfer in red chalk
28.3 × 21.9 cm (11.1 × 8.6 in)

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