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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Bryan, Michael (1886). "Bellini, Cavaliere Giacinto". In Graves, Robert Edmund (ed.). Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers (A–K). Vol. I (3rd ed.). London: George Bell & Sons.
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