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Studiolo from the Ducal Palace in Gubbio (detail). Rogers Fund, 1939 (39.153).

 

Other emblems allude to Federico's virtues as a military leader. The crane, with a leg held up and a stone in its claw, is a time-honored symbol of watchfulness and an allusion to Federico's celebrated virtue of being "always vigilant and awake."

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