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| Renaissance lute rose by Magno Duiffenpruchar, 1612, from a lute in the Museo Civico in Bologna. Carved into bookmatched Sitka spruce. The angular geometric line punctuated by leafy arabesques tells the story of how indebted European Renaissance craftsmen were to Islamic sensibility. |
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