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For the most recent discussion of this painting in the context of painting in Brescia, a city influential for Giampietro Silvio's early work, and Venice, where the painting is thought to have been executed, see Alessandro Ballarin, "Giampetietro Silvio," in the author's La "Salomè" del Romanino ed altri studi sulla Pittura Bresciana del Cinquecento, ed. Barbara Maria Savy, (Padua: Bertoncello Artigrafiche, 2006), vol. 1, 217-154, especially 246-47.
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