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Musée du Petit Palais

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Facade of the Petit Palais from Place du Palais in Avignon, France.

The archbishops’ palace during the 14th and 15th centuries now houses outstanding collections of primitive, pre-Renaissance 13th- to 16th-century Italian religious paintings by Old Masters. The most famous is Botticelli’s La Vierge et l’Enfant (1470).

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