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- 1 2 "Review: El Greco and his Patrons: Three Major Projects by Richard G. Mann" Review by Priscilla E. Muller, Renaissance Quarterly , Vol. 40, No. 3 (Autumn, 1987), pp. 538-540.
- ↑ Spanish Paintings of the Fifteenth through Nineteenth Centuries. National Gallery of Art. Retrieved 17 December 2016.
- 1 2 "Spanish Paintings of the Fifteenth through Nineteenth Centuries by Jonathan Brown and Richard G. Mann", review by James Clifton, The Sixteenth Century Journal , Vol. 23, No. 4 (Winter, 1992), pp. 810-811.
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