Sarcasm and condescension
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There are two hedonist Italian male teenagers in a painting by Luca Signorelli.
The image is easy to find online, but the right and complete reference is not. Neither is a good color reproduction of the painting.
So we put it here :
Luca Signorelli, Predella of the Adoration of the three Kings, 1492, Uffizi, Florence.

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This is a relatively easy to find black-white reproduction.
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This is a relatively mediocre color reproduction made of partial color photographs.
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And this is a better quality detail of the left side.
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The original colour is unclear, as the available reproductions are either yellow or red/blue.

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