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Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi|Ugo da Carpi

Hercules chasing Avarice from the Temple of the Muses

ca. 1520–27
Chiaroscuro woodcut from two blocks in green
30.3 × 23.5 cm (11.9 × 9.3 in)

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