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Title: Illustrated catalogue of the exceedingly rare and valuable art treasures and antiquities formerly contained in the famous Davanzati Palace, Florence, Italy
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: American Art Association Townsend, Horace, 1859-1922 Volpi, Elia, 1858-1938 Guglielmetti, Cesare A Rusconi, Arturo Jahn
Subjects: Volpi, Elia, 1858-1938
Publisher: New York : American Art Association
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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313 -0 Fifteenth Century Sienese Miktiok of^theooulOctagonal frame, with pointed oblong hanging piece enclosing acircular tempera painting of St. Catherine. The frame hasan outer border of ebony and other woods in a geometricalinlay, and an inner broad band of ivory carved in low relief withfigures l winged angels, of whom two in the upper portion holdshields painted with a monogram and a coat-of-arms. The cir-cular painting is surrounded by an octagonal border of inlay. Height, ll_. inches; width, !)._. inches. Note: These Mirrors of the Soul, containing paintings of Saints inplace of a mirror, were presented to young maidi ns under the protectionof the pari icula r Sainl depicl i;d.
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Davaxzati Palace: The Peacock Room—First Floor

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