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		<title>Niccolò dell&#8217;Abbate: Portrait of a Gentleman with a Falcon</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Niccolò dell&#8217;Abbate&#8217;s Portrait of a Gentleman with a Falcon, painted around 1548–50, presents an unidentified northern Italian aristocrat with the controlled formality expected of sixteenth-century portraiture, yet his expression resists an easy reading. The large oil on canvas, measuring approximately 140 × 117 cm as framed, is now held by the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney. Neither signed nor dated, it has been assigned to the final years of dell&#8217;Abbate&#8217;s Italian career on stylistic grounds. The museum [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Niccolò dell&#8217;Abate: Man with Parrot</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[A young man in black turns his face away from the frontal axis, his attention directed beyond the limits of the composition, while a brilliantly coloured parrot occupies the ledge before him. Niccolò dell&#8217;Abate&#8217;s Man with Parrot, an oil painting on canvas measuring 125 × 109 cm, belongs to the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. The museum currently dates it to 1535/1540 and classifies it as an Italian, specifically Emilian, painting; other cataloguing traditions have placed it more broadly in the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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