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		Pick an Italian region:  
			Naples | 
			Piedmont | 
			Provence | 
			Rome | 
			Tuscany | 
			Venetia | 
			Others |
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		eed one define Rome's artistic influence in the world ? If the French statesman Colbert decided in the XVIIth century that the training of any French artist had to include a visit to Rome, it was because he was aware of its great cultural wealth which would nourish European art until the XIXth century.
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