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Giuseppe Galli Bibiena

Design for Stage Set: Centralized Villa with Cupola ("Villa rotunda" Style) and Colonnaded Wings.

1696–1756
Pen, brown and gray ink over black chalk
41.9 × 56.8 cm (16.5 × 22.4 in)

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