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Detail from Giotto’s Nativity of the Virgin, Santa Maria Novella, Florence

Artist: Gillies, William George, Sir, CBE RA RSA PPRSW · 1898-1973

The work was produced during Gillies' only recorded trip to Italy, in 1924 on an Edinburgh College of Art Andrew Grant Travelling Scholarship


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