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Ferdinando Galli Bibiena

Design for One-Quarter of a Ceiling-elaborate Architectural Ornament in Perspective

1657–1743
Pen and brown ink over traces of leadpoint
26.4 × 19.1 cm (10.4 × 7.5 in)

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