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Marcantonio Raimondi|Raphael

Prudence personified by a woman standing in a niche, holding a shawl in her right hand, a snake coiled around her, left from 'The Virtues'

ca. 1515–25
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22 × 10.8 cm (8.7 × 4.3 in)

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