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File:Sandro Botticelli - Sixte II.jpg

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Title
English: Pope Sixtus II
Français : Pape Sixte II
Date 1480s
Medium fresco
English: Sistine Chapel
Français : Chapelle Sixtine
English: Vatican City
Français : Cité du Vatican
Source/Photographer Livre Fresques italiennes de la Renaissance, 1470-1510, de Steffi Röttgen et Antonio Quattrone. Paris : Citadelles & Mazenod, 1997. ISBN 285088135X

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