Pietro Berrettini
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; ...in words. In the second epigraph the splendid poet and art critic Yves Bonnefoy notes how Poussin, Titian, and Pietro Berrettini da Cortona (called Cortone in French) would have liked to reproduce the world in their paintings, only to be caught...
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