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| | TIME.com: Most Tender Pity -- Jul 14, 1961 -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) |
 | | Carlo Crivelli bounds into history with an entry in the ledger of the Venetian court, which on March 7, 1457, fined him 200 lire and sentenced him to six months in prison. |
 | | The sentence was not particularly harsh, for Crivelli, it seems, had abducted a married lady named Tarsia and kept her hidden in his brother's house for months. |
 | | Crivelli never lost his sternly disciplined technique or his ability to make a canvas sparkle as if he had been working, not with brush and paint, but with gold and jewels. |
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