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CERQUOZZI, Michelangelo: Street Scene in Rome

🖼 Street Scene in Rome, -
Oil on canvas
58 × 69 cm

Bustling Roman streets teem with vendors, beggars, and soldiers rendered in dynamic brushwork and earthy tones. Cerquozzi captures everyday urban life with ethnographic precision, elevating genre scenes to serious artistic subject matter during the Baroque period.

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E. H. Gombrich
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