Letizia Treves is James and Sarah Sassoon Curator of Later Italian, Spanish, and French 17th-Century Paintings at the National Gallery, London.
“This catalogue not only presents us with pictures of her paintings
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“This Baroque painter put herself on the front lines of her
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