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Two men in conversation
A saint standing with a book in his hand
Mystical marriage of Saint Catherine with Saints
Saint John the Evangelist
Facade of a building
Christ among the doctors
Young man playing the lute and studying details of his hands
Head of a Woman in the Wedding Feast of Cupid and Psyche
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Two men in conversation
A saint standing with a book in his hand
Mystical marriage of Saint Catherine with Saints
Saint John the Evangelist
Facade of a building
Christ among the doctors
Young man playing the lute and studying details of his hands
Head of a Woman in the Wedding Feast of Cupid and Psyche
Project for the ceiling of the atrium of Palazzo Doria
Study for the border of a tapestry and grotesque decorations
Studies of heads and limbs
Four men around the base of a column
Madonna and Child with Saints
Blood of the Redeemer

Facade of a building

Anonymous

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In the Rome of the sixteenth century, where the rediscovery of the ancient had a strong influence on the taste of the bourgeois, many notables and wealthy men try to evoke the sculptural magnificence of the ancient reliefs in their homes, commissioning monochrome frescoes to decorate the facades of their buildings. It was Polidoro da Caravaggio himself who perfected the technique of painted facades during the 1920s, together with Maturino da Firenze with whom he worked in over fifty construction sites.
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Title: Facade of a building

Author: Anonymous

Date: 1520 - 30

Technique: Pen and brown ink with brown watercolor on achromatic geometric construction

Displayed in: Royal Museums Turin

In the Exhibition: IN THE SIGN OF RAFFAELLO

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