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- ↑ Benedict Nicolson, "Caravaggesques at Cleveland", The Burlington Magazine, CXIV, 1972, pp. 113-17
- ↑ Sir John Pope-Hennessy, “The Sensuous and the Cerebral,” Times Literary Supplement, 25 March 1983, p. 305
- ↑ Ann Sutherland Harris, “Domenichino,” The Burlington Magazine, CXXVI, 1984, pp. 166-68
- ↑ Guy Callan, “The 'Divine' Guido,” The Art Book, VI, 1999, no. 1, pp. 35-37
- ↑ Philip Sohm, “The 'Divine' Guido,” The Art Bulletin, LXXXII, 2000, pp. 358-61
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