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Jacopo de' Barbari: Holy Family
Pellegrino Tibaldi: Visitation (Meeting of Mary and Elizabeth in the Presence of Saints Joseph and Jerome)
Nicholas Poussin: The Holy Family on the Steps
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father of Virgin Mary
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Franz Rosenzweig
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