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La Mort de la Vierge

This painting is a work that was commissioned by Laerzio Cherubini, a papal lawyer of
the time exactly in 1601, this painting could not be finished before 1606. The
representation of the Virgin Mary caused a certain scandal, and was rejected as
inappropriate for the time, instead put a painting on the same subject by Carlo Saraceni.

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