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Portrait of Saint Andrea Corsini

Portrait of Saint Andrea Corsini

In 1944, German soldiers raided the Corsini villa, where the family's artworks had been hastily hidden behind a plaster wall. Noticing the wet plaster around the edges but lacking the time to tear it down, the soldiers fired bullets into this portrait and left empty handed.

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