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References
- Douglas, R. Langton, Mino del Reame, The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, Vol. 88, No. 514 (Jan., 1946), 23.
- Vasari, Giorgio, Le Vite delle più eccellenti pittori, scultori, ed architettori, many editions and translations.
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