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Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio|Rosso Fiorentino

Plate 15: Hercules standing in a niche, wearing a lion skin and holding a club, viewed from behind, with his head turned to the left, from a series of mythological gods and goddesses

1526
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21 × 10.9 cm (8.3 × 4.3 in)

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