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| Title | Val D'Arno: Ten Lectures on the Tuscan Art |
| Author | John Ruskin |
| Publisher | C.E. Merrill & Company, 1891 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Mar 9, 2006 |
| Length | 256 pages |
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