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Holbein carpet, XV-XVI centuries, Western Anatolia, Ottoman Empire. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Islamisches Museum, Berlin.

Inventory no: 82.894.

Size: 141x275cm

Madonna with Sts John the Baptist and Donatus
1475-83
Wood, 189 x 191 cm
Duomo, Pistoia

by VERROCCHIO, Andrea del (b. 1435, Firenze, d. 1488, Venezia)