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...Maggiore. In this work the planes are multiplied, space is dilated, and an assembly of people is accumulated in complex but ordered movements. In their solemn monumentality, The Family of Darius Before Alexander and the canvases executed for the Cuccina family (c. 1572), which contain splendid portraits, are more organic in structure.
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