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Nature 448, 113 (12 July 2007) | doi:10.1038/448113a; Published online 11 July 2007

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Snapshot: Marks of distinction

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Historians follow paper trail for artistic etching.

During the eighteenth century, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (son of the more famous Giovanni Battista Tiepolo) was commissioned by the prince-bishop of Würzburg to depict the biblical story of the flight of the Holy Family from King Herod. But did he start the series of 24 etchings, called The Flight into Egypt, in his hometown of Venice, Italy, or only after he arrived in Würzburg, Germany, at around 1750?

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