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The image shows an elderly man with a beard and a bald head, intensely focused on a book on a table. There is a cherubic figure beside him, looking over his shoulder. The man is wearing simple robes and there are books, papers, and a human skull on the table.

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Saint Francis

Pietro Rotari (Venetian, 1707 - 1762)

1730-1762

Medium: etching
Classification: Print
Culture: Italian
Museum: National Gallery of Art, CG-E
Credit line: Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Rights: Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it: Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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