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Article: Why Mona Lisa Smiles and Other Tales by Vasari.
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- Renaissance Quarterly
- Article date:
- June 22, 1994
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Paul Barolsky. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991. 144 pp. $22.50.
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