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painted in the churches of the

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References

* Excerpt translated from Italian Wikipedia.

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, ''Dizionario della Pittura e dei Pittori'', Einaudi Editore, 1997 * Arabella Cifani, Franco Monetti, Carlotta Venegoni, Marco Piccat, con la collaborazione di Augusto Cantamessa, ''La cappella di Santa Maria di Missione di Villafranca Piemonte. Un capolavoro del gotico internazionale italiano'', Torino, Umberto Allemandi ed., 2014 15th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Gothic painters Painters from Piedmont {{Italy-painter-14thC-stub