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- 1 2 Donald Preziosi: Enchanted Credulities: Art, Religion and Amnesia [ permanent dead link ]
- ↑ "University of Oxford: Slade Professorship of Fine Art". Archived from the original on 2008-04-20. Retrieved 2007-09-05.
- ↑ Distinguished alumnus returns to Fairfield University for lecture and honor
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