Exhibition | European Old Masters: 16th–19th Centuries
Press release for the exhibition:
European Old Masters: 16th–19th Centuries
Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, Gymea (Sydney), 28 September — 3 December 2017
Jean-Marc Nattier, Portrait of Madame de La Porte, 1754; oil on canvas, 82 × 65.5 cm (Art Gallery of New South Wales, gift of William Bowmore, OBE 1992).
New South Wales’s most important European old masters including magnificent works by some of the leading Italian, French, and British artists of the High Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, and Romantic periods are on loan from the Art Gallery of New South Wales to Hazelhurst Regional Gallery for the exhibition European Old Masters: 16th–19th Century.
Michael Brand, director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales said the exhibition is the first occasion so many of these important European paintings have been shown together outside the Art Gallery of New South Wales. “We are delighted to collaborate with Hazelhurst Regional Gallery to share some of the finest European works in our collection with their audiences in the Sutherland Shire and further afield,” Brand said. “The Gallery’s early ambitions to display paintings by the masters can be seen in the roll-call of European greats inscribed on the building’s façade, and I applaud Hazelhurst Regional Gallery for showing works from this glorious tradition that is still relevant today,” Brand added.
Belinda Hanrahan, director, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery said leading artists in the exhibition include Thomas Gainsborough, William Hogarth, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Bernardo Strozzi, and Frans Snyders. “Hazelhurst Gallery is thrilled that Michael Brand as director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales has given us this opportunity for people to encounter the state’s finest European old masters. Paintings such as these remind us of what is constant in human experience and emotion while offering an insight into ages and cultures so different to our own,” Belinda said.
Sutherland Shire Mayor and Hazelhurst Gallery Board member, Carmelo Pesce said this exhibition is another example of our commitment to a culturally rich community. The Sutherland Shire community is the first to see the collection outside its home and showcases Council’s commitment to strengthen its community connections through shared cultural experiences.
Despite its early ambitions to collect works by the European masters, The Art Gallery of New South Wales did not in fact start collecting old masters until the 1950s. AGNSW curator European prints, drawings and watercolours, Peter Raissis said prior to that time the great masters of the past could be experienced only through copies intended for educational purposes due to the Gallery’s earlier focus on acquiring works by living artists. “Between 1951 and 1976, the Gallery acquired an outstanding group of English 18th-century portraits, including works by three of the leading painters of the age: William Hogarth, Thomas Gainsborough, and Joshua Reynolds. During these years the Gallery also purchased landscapes and subject pictures representative of British Neo-Classicism and Romanticism by artists such as Richard Wilson, John Glover, Richard Westall, William Hamilton, and Francis Danby. “Although accessions of non-British painting were rare, three powerful and imposing figural compositions by the Baroque painters Bernardo Strozzi, Jan van Bijlert, and Matthias Stomer expanded the scope and ambition of the collection,” Raissis said.
The extraordinary donation by James Fairfax AC during the 1990s significantly enriched the Gallery’s holdings of European old masters, particularly in the area of 18th-century French and Italian art such as the works by Nicolas de Largillierre and Canaletto. The collection has continued to develop with the acquisition of major Italian Renaissance and Baroque works such as the work of Giulio Cesare Procaccini, also exhibited in European Old Masters: 16th–19th Century.
Journée d’étude | Jacques-François Blondel
From the conference flyer:
Jacques-François Blondel et l’enseignement de l’architecture:
La dernière leçon de l’architecture « à la française »
Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine, Paris, 14 December 2017
Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, Blondel démontrant des machines dans l’académie d’architecture, 1770, Recueil de poésies de Sedaine, 1770 (Chantilly, Musée Condé).
Dernier héraut de l’architecture à la française, Jacques-François Blondel (1708/9–1774) a formé dans son école privée et à l’Académie royale d’architecture parmi les architectes les plus renommés de la seconde moi é du XVIIIe siècle et du début du siècle suivant : Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, Étienne-Louis Boullée, Alexandre Brongniart ou William Chambers… La pédagogie révolutionnaire qu’il développa dans l’enseignement de l’architecture tout au long de sa carrière a connu une ample diffusion en France, en Europe et même, outre-Atlantique, jusqu’au Québec. Si certains architectes l’appliquèrent à la lettre, d’autres s’en affranchirent et allèrent au-delà des leçons professées par le maître.
Organisée en partenariat avec la Ville de Metz et l’École na onale supérieure d’architecture de Nancy, cette journée d’étude internationale est centrée sur le rôle de Jacques-François Blondel dans l’enseignement de l’architecture. Elle annonce l’exposition monographique Blondel, architecte des Lumières qui sera présentée à Metz, à l’Arsenal, du 13 avril au 13 juillet 2018 et l’exposition-dossier que la Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine lui consacrera la même année. Cette rencontre se propose de revenir sur les idées ainsi que les méthodes pédagogiques dispensées par J.-F. Blondel, et de relire, au travers d’un prisme neuf, les fondamentaux de son enseignement. La participation à cette journée est gratuite; inscription en ligne obligatoire. Contact: jean-marc.hofman@citedelarchitecture.fr.
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9.00 Accueil
9.20 Ouverture de la journée d’étude
• Corinne Bélier (Directrice du musée des Monuments français)
• Lorenzo Diez (Directeur de l’École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Nancy)
• Dominique Gros (Maire de Metz)
9.45 Jacques-François Blondel : état de la recherche, Aurélien Davrius (Maître-assistant à l’École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Paris-Malaquais, Laboratoire LIAT)
10.15 Jacques-François Blondel, un professeur innovant à l’Académie royale d’architecture ?, Hélène Rousteau-Chambon (Professeur d’histoire de l’art moderne à l’université de Nantes)
10.45 Blondel et les Mansart : une leçon particulière, Philippe Cachau (Docteur en histoire de l’art)
11.15 Pause-café
11.45 Les savoirs théoriques et techniques transmis par Blondel au travers de l’exemple du matériau plâtre, Christelle Inizan (Chargée d’études et de recherches, Médiathèque de l’architecture et du patrimoine, Centre de recherches sur les Monuments historiques)
12.15 L’influence de J.-F. Blondel sur le cours d’architecture de l’École des Ponts et Chaussées, Théodore Guuinec (Architecte DE-HNOMNP, historien du patrimoine)
12.45 Questions ouvertes aux intervenants
13.00 Pause-déjeune
14.30 L’enseignement de l’expérience architecturale chez Blondel et ses collègues anglais, Sigrid de Jong (Chercheur à l’université de Leyde, Pays-Bas)
15.00 « Como ha hecho el Sieur Blondel, en Francia… » Réflexions sur l’influence de la théorie architecturale française autour de Jacques-François Blondel en Espagne, 1750–1800, Adrián Almoguera (Doctorant contractuel en histoire de l’architecture Université de Paris Sorbonne / Centre André Chastel)
15.30 Le Précis d’architecture (1828) de l’abbé Jérôme Demers et le prolongement de l’enseignement de Blondel au Canada au XIXe siècle, Marc Grignon (Professeur d’Histoire de l’art à l’Université Laval) et Pierre-Édouard Latouche (Professeur au département d’histoire de l’art à l’Université du Québec à Montréal)
16.15 Pause
16.30 L’École des arts de Jacques-François Blondel ou l’invention d’une pédagogie des relations entre architecture, sculpture et peinture, Laure Chabanne (Conservateur du patrimoine, musée et domaine nationaux du palais de Compiègne)
17.00 « Le Grand Blondel », Jean-Marie Pérouse de Montclos (Directeur de recherche honoraire au CNRS)
17.30 Vers une conception « évolutionnaire » de l’architecture : Jacques-François Blondel et la question du jugement professionnel dans la théorie de Peter Collins, Denis Bilodeau (Professeur tulaire à l’École d’architecture de l’Université de Montréal)
18.00 Questions ouvertes aux intervenants
18.20 Conclusion de la journée, Pierre Caye (Directeur de recherche au CNRS)
19.30 Visite de la galerie des moulages
Exhibition | Canova, Hayez, and Cicognara: The Last Glory of Venice
Francesco Hayez, Rinaldo and Armida, 1812–13, oil on canvas
(Venice: Museo Nazionale Gallerie dell’Accademia)
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From Et Electa:
Canova, Hayez, and Cicognara: The Last Glory of Venice
Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice, 29 September 2017 — 2 April 2018
Curated by Paola Marini, Fernando Mazzocca, and Roberto De Feo
In the year of the bicentennial celebrations of the opening of the Gallerie dell’Accademia—an international institution first founded to compensate for the loss of so many masterpieces removed during the suppression of schools and religious institutions—the exhibition Canova, Hayez, Cicognara: L’ultima gloria di Venezia pays homage to a unique moment in the artistic history of the Serenissima, its cultural revival initiated in 1815 when the Four Horses of Saint Mark, the iconic symbol of the city, were returned from Paris.
The acknowledged leader of this revival was the intellectual Count Leopoldo Cicognara, President of the Accademia di Belle Arti, who together with his friend Antonio Canova, the guiding spirit of the project, and Francesco Hayez, worked to create a museum on an international scale, a worthy setting for Venice’s unrivaled art heritage, yet one also suitable for promoting contemporary art.
The exhibition includes 100 major works, arranged in nine thematic sections, including a series of artefacts known as ‘The Homage of the Venetian Provinces’ sent to the imperial court of Vienna in 1818 to mark the fourth marriage of Emperor Francis I, reunited and returning to their native city for the first time in 200 years.
Highlights of the exhibition also include the opening section dedicated to the return of the Four Horses of St Mark and the cameo depicting Jupiter the Shield Bearer, a masterpiece whose beauty was hymned by Canova, and further on the commemoration of the acquisition of a series of drawings by Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael from Canova and Cicognara’s mutual friend Giuseppe Bossi, a purchase which significantly enriched the Academy’s collection.
Fernando Mazzocca et al., Canova, Hayez, Cicognara: L’ultima Gloria di Venezia (Venice: Marsilio, 2017), 352 pages, ISBN: 9788831728225, $65.
New Book | Messerschmidt’s Character Heads
Now available from Routledge:
Michael Yonan, Messerschmidt’s Character Heads: Maddening Sculpture and the Writing of Art History (New York: Routledge, 2018), 194 pages, ISBN: 978 113821 3432 (hardcover), $150 / ISBN: 978 131544 8404 (ebook), $55.
This book examines a famous series of sculptures by the German artist Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736–1783) known as his ‘Character Heads’. These are busts of human heads, highly unconventional for their time, representing strange, often inexplicable facial expressions. Scholars have struggled to explain these works of art. Some have said that Messerschmidt was insane, while others suggested that he tried to illustrate some sort of intellectual system. Michael Yonan argues that these sculptures are simultaneously explorations of art’s power and also critiques of the aesthetic limits that would be placed on that power.
Michael Yonan is associate professor of art history at the University of Missouri–Columbia. He is a specialist in eighteenth-century European art and material culture.
C O N T E N T S
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I Writing the Artist’s Mind
Introduction to Part I
1 Nicolai’s Dreamer
2 Kris’s Psychotic
II Writing the Artist’s Context
Introduction to Part II
3 Mesmer’s Acolyte
4 Lichtenberg’s Ally
III Writing the Artist’s Project
Introduction to Part III
5 The Game of Making
6 The Envy of the Gods
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Workshop | Diderot and 18th-Century Human Simulacra
From H-ArtHist:
Diderot and 18th-Century Human Simulacra
Freie Universität Berlin, 5 October 2017
Registration due by 3 October 2017
The workshop aims to explore the different aesthetical and anthropological dimensions of the ‘mannequin’ metaphor in Diderot’s “Paradoxe sur le comédien,” which Diderot introduces as a model for actors/actresses at the very beginning of his acting theory. Central questions of the workshop include, but are not limited to, the following: Why does Diderot use a tool for visual artists to exemplify his idea of the ideal actor/actress? What is the specificity of the mannequin compared to other types of human simulacra such as the statue, the marionette, and the automat?
In order to analyse this specific metaphor and to explore possible answers to these questions, the workshop will approach the subject from two angles. The first approach consists of a comparative analysis between the mannequin’s function as an art tool for painters or sculptors and Diderot’s conception of the ideal actor/actress. Such an analysis implies a comparison between Diderot’s theoretical works on theatre and his theoretical writings on visual art, as for example his ‘Salons’. The second approach consists of a historical contextualisation of Diderot’s concept of the human body in the broader philosophical and scientific discourse of his time.
The workshop will focus on the mannequin’s specificity while comparing it to other human simulacra of that time, such as Jacques de Vaucanson’s famous automata or the moving statue of Condillac’s “Traité des sensations.” The workshop will also discuss other forms of simulacra present in Diderot’s works, as they appear for instance in the Encyclopédie.
The workshop will be held in French and English. Please register via email by October 3rd: marie.igelmann@fu-berlin.de. Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Theaterwissenschaft, Grunewaldstr. 35, 12165 Berlin-Steglitz, Room 103. The workshop is organised by Marie-Irène Igelmann (Freie Universität Berlin) in the context of the Dahlem Junior Host Program of the Dahlem Humanities Center.
S C H E D U L E
9.45 Opening and Introduction
10.00 L’automate chez Diderot: le vivant et le mécanique (Aurélia Gaillard, Université Bordeaux Montaigne)
11.00 Coffee break
11.15 L’esthétique de la singularité: abstraction et figuration du personnage chez Condillac et Diderot (Manuel Mühlbacher, LMU München)
12.00 Aesthetic and Scientific Concepts of 18th-Century Mannequins (Marie-Irène Igelmann, Freie Universität Berlin)
12.45 Lunch break
15.00 The Encyclopédie, Similarity, and the Simulacrum (Thari Jungen, Graduate School “Performing Citizenship,” Hamburg)
15.45 The Notion of Genius in Diderot’s ‘Salon de 1767’ (Christian Hartwig Steinau, Freie Universität Berlin/LMU München)
16.30 Coffee break
16.45 Concluding Discussion
Cleveland Acquires Wright’s Portrait of Charles Heathcote
From the museum’s press release (27 September 2017). . .
Joseph Wright of Derby, Portrait of Colonel Charles Heathcote, ca. 1771–72; oil on canvas, 50 × 40 inches (The Cleveland Museum of Art).
The Cleveland Museum of Art’s recent acquisitions include a portrait of Colonel Charles Heathcote by British artist Joseph Wright of Derby; a drawing by German Expressionist Oskar Kokoschka; a 14th-century Japanese hanging scroll featuring the Buddhist deity Aizen Myōō, Wisdom King of Passion; and a monumental oil painting on canvas by contemporary Chinese artist Liu Wei.
Often described as among the artist’s most successful and appealing portraits, Joseph Wright of Derby’s Portrait of Colonel Charles Heathcote is one of a limited group of small-scale likenesses made in the early 1770s, depicting the figures at full length in a landscape setting. The subject, Charles Heathcote, of Derby, joined the army in 1745 at the age of 15 and rose through the ranks. At the time of his retirement in 1772, Heathcote was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the 35th Foot (Royal Sussex).
The figure is painted in a relatively soft and smooth technique: facial features are carefully characterized and minute attention paid to rendering details of costume. However, the landscape is painted in a more energetic, almost impressionistic, technique. Indeed, Wright gave the landscape as much personality and presence as he did Heathcote himself. The group of small-scale portraits to which the Portrait of Colonel Charles Heathcote belongs mark the beginnings of Wright’s interest in landscape painting.
This innovative approach to combining figure and landscape was not particularly well received by critics at the time, who were more accustomed to portraits entirely dominated by a figure alone. When viewed close up, the variance in technique can seem jarring, but when viewed from the intended few steps away, Wright’s radical approach results in a compelling image of an elegant figure in verdant natural surroundings. Wright painted the landscape in bold, broad brushstrokes that call attention to artistic process in a way that seems dazzlingly modern for a painting executed in 1771–72.
Joseph Wright’s Portrait of Colonel Charles Heathcote makes a striking addition to the museum’s display of eighteenth-century British art. It complements and offers a counterpoint to the full-length, life-sized Grand Manner portraits by Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Lawrence, and Joshua Reynolds in the collection. . .
The full press release is available here»
Exhibition | Chaekgeori: Korean Painted Screens
In terms of objects, it is a nineteenth-century exhibition, but this fascinating genre dates to the late eighteenth century. From SUNY Press:
Chaekgeori: Pleasure of Possessions in Korean Painted Screens
Charles B. Wang Center, Stony Brook University, 29 September — 23 December 2016
Spencer Museum of Art, The University of Kansas, 15 April — 11 June 2017
The Cleveland Museum of Art, 5 August — 5 November 2017
Chaekgeori explores the genre of Korean still-life painting known as chaekgeori (loosely translated as ‘books and things’). Encouraged and popularized by King Jeongjo (1752–1800, r. 1776–1800) as a political tool to promote societal conservatism against an influx of ideas from abroad, chaekgeori was one of the most enduring and prolific art forms of Korea’s Joseon dynasty (1392–1910). It depicts books and other material commodities as symbolic embodiments of knowledge, power, and social reform.
Chaekgeori has maintained its popularity in Korea for more than two centuries, and remains a force in Korean art to this day. No other genre or medium in the entirety of Korean art, including both court and folk paintings, has so engaged and documented the image of books and collectable commodities and their place in an ever-evolving Korean society. When it transitioned into folk-style painting, unexpected and creative visual elements emerged. Folk versions of chaekgeori from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries often show an exquisite fusion of Korean and Western composition that feels modern to our contemporary eyes. Not only books but many other commodities are depicted to represent the commoner’s desire for higher social status, wealth, and knowledge.
The first large-scale traveling exhibition of its kind to be published, The Power and Pleasure of Possessions in Korean Painted Screens is made possible by generous grants from the Korea Foundation and the Gallery Hyundai.
Byungmo Chung and Sunglim Kim, eds., Chaekgeori: The Power and Pleasure of Possessions in Korean Painted Screens (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2017), 250 pages, ISBN: 978 14384 68112, $60.
Byungmo Chung is Professor in the Department of Cultural Assets at Gyeongju University, Korea. He was a visiting scholar in the Department of Asian Cultures and Languages at Rutgers University and President of the Korean Folk Painting Society. His scholarship focuses on the genre paintings and Minhwa—the folk painting of Korea. He has organized several Minhwa exhibitions in Korea and written numerous articles and books about Korean folk and genre paintings, including Chaesaekhwa: Polychrome Paintings of Korea.
Sunglim Kim is Assistant Professor of Korean Art History in the Department of Art History and the Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Program, Dartmouth College. Her scholarship focuses on premodern and early twentieth-century Korean art and culture, including the rise of consumer culture and the role of professional nouveau riche in late Joseon Korea, Japanese colonial photographs of Korea, and Korean women artists. She has curated several exhibitions in the United States and written numerous publications on Korean art.
Exhibition | Théâtre du Pouvoir
Press release (via Art Daily) for the exhibition now on view at the Petite Galerie of the Louvre:
Power Plays / Théâtre du Pouvoir
Musée du Louvre, Paris, 27 September 2017 — 2 July 2018
Curated by Paul Mironneau and Jean-Luc Martinez with Florence Dinet
The Petite Galerie exhibition for 2017–18 focuses on the connection between art and political power. Governing entails self-presentation as a way of affirming authority, legitimacy, and prestige. Thus, art in the hands of patrons becomes a propaganda tool; but it can also be a vehicle for protest and subverting the established order. Spanning the period from antiquity up to our own time, forty works from the Musée du Louvre, the Musée National du Château de Pau, the Château de Versailles, and the Musée des Beaux-arts de la Ville de Paris illustrate the evolution of the codes behind the representation of political power.
The exhibition is divided into four sections. ‘Princely Roles’: The first room presents the king’s functions—priest, builder, warrior/protector—as portrayed through different artistic media. Notable examples are Philippe de Champaigne’s Portrait of Louis XIII, Léonard Limosin’s enamel Crucifixion Altarpiece, and the Triad of Osorkon II from ancient Egypt.
‘Legitimacy through Persuasion’: The focus in the second room is on the emblematic figure of Henri IV, initially a king in search of legitimacy, then a model for the Bourbon heirs from Louis XVI to the Restoration. Features include sculptures by Barthélémy Prieur and François-Joseph Bosio and paintings by Frans Pourbus the Younger, Ingres, and others.
Antoine-François Callet, Portrait of Louis XVI, 1778, oil on canvas (Château du Versailles).
‘The Antique Model’: The theme of the third room is the equestrian statue. The Louvre is home to several remarkable examples, among them the Barberini Ivory leaf, a bronze of Charles the Bald, and François Girardon’s Louis XIV.
‘The Insignia of Power’: In the fourth room majestic portraits of monarchs, including Antoine-François Callet’s Portrait of Louis XVI, François Gérard’s Portrait of Napoleon I, and Franz-Xaver Winterhalter’s Portrait of Louis Philippe, are accompanied by the regalia used during the coronation of the kings of France. This final section also highlights the dramatic historical and representational changes that came with the French Revolution.
“By providing keys to the observation and explanation of different artworks, the Petite Galerie sets out to make the visit to the museum an enjoyable and enlightening experience” says Jean-Luc Martinez, president-director of the Musée du Louvre. Informative labels and digital touchscreen displays encourage attention to detail and help to establish context. In addition, five themed tours of the Louvre’s permanent collection are proposed: 1) Royal Roles and Representational Codes in the Ancient East, 2) The Pharaoh, 3) The Powers of the Roman emperor, 4) The Islamic Sovereign, and 5) The King as Artist and Patron.
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The Louvre’s Petite Galerie opened in 2015:
A new exhibition space at the heart of the museum, the Petite Galerie is designed to be open to all with particular focus on young visitors and their accompanying adults. An unprecedented project, the Petite Galerie draws on the museum’s experience gained in the field of art and cultural education. Each year, this ambitious project develops an overarching theme to give visitors a unique encounter with a variety of artworks and enrich the way they look at them. From October to June, an exhibition of around forty original and multidisciplinary works from the collections of the Louvre and other French national museums will be presented on a chosen theme.
In addition to the temporary exhibition, the project will also be rolled out in two other areas:
• online via a Web site and an innovative digital environment (applications, e-learning, collaborative platforms, etc.),
• and beyond the museum walls through traveling outreach initiatives for all audiences (cultural institutions, companies, schools, etc.).
A budget of 5 million euros has been allocated for the gallery program and its first five years of operation. Resources and publications will be available to all visitors, while activities and events will also be organized to engage audiences of different ages. Readings, storytelling, films, concerts, conferences, and talks held in the Louvre Auditorium will also reflect the year’s chosen theme. In keeping with French Ministry of Culture and Ministry of Education guidelines, the Petite Galerie will also provide an opportunity for the Louvre to strengthen cooperation with major partners (institutions, museums, media), as well as associations and local authorities, to forge ties that extend the project’s reach outside of the museum.
New Book | The Conversation Piece
From Yale UP:
Kate Retford, The Conversation Piece: Making Modern Art in Eighteenth-Century Britain (London: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2017), 440 pages, ISBN: 978 030019 4807, $75.
Pioneered by William Hogarth (1697–1764) and his peers in the early eighteenth century, and then revitalized by Johan Zoffany (1733–1810), the conversation piece was an innovative mode of portraiture, depicting groups posed in landscape or domestic settings. These artists grappled with creating complex multi-figured compositions and intricate narratives, filling their paintings with representations of socially, nationally, and temporally precise customs. Paying particular attention to the vibrant (and at times fabricated) interior and exterior settings in these works, Kate Retford discusses the various ways that the conversation piece engaged with the rich material culture of Georgian Britain. The book also explores how these portraits served a wide array of interests and concerns among familial networks and larger social groups. From codifying performances of politeness to engaging in cross-cultural exchanges, the conversation piece was a complex and nuanced expression of a multifaceted society.
Kate Retford is senior lecturer in 18th- and early 19th-century art at Birkbeck, University of London.
Survey of Scholarly Reading Practices
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