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Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio|Rosso Fiorentino|Carlo Losi

Plate 1: Saturn in a niche devouring his son, standing before a scythe, from a series of mythological gods and goddesses

1526
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22.1 × 11.7 cm (8.7 × 4.6 in)

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