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Two Renaissance masterpieces coming to New Orleans museum

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Two Renaissance masterpieces are coming to the New Orleans Museum of Art — only the third museum ever to display them together, and the second outside Italy.

Paolo Veronese (POWloh veh-roh-NAY-zuh) painted “St. Jerome in the Wilderness” and “St. Agatha Visited in Prison by St. Peter” during 1566 and 1567 for a church on Murano, an island in the lagoon of Venice.

“Though known to s…

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