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Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio|Rosso Fiorentino

Plate 14: Mercury standing in a niche playing his pipes, with the severed head of an old man and a sword at his feet, from "Mythological Gods and Goddesses"

1526
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20.8 × 10.7 cm (8.2 × 4.2 in)

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