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Genius of the Sun (from the Tarocchi, series B: Cosmic Principles & Virtues, #31)

before 1467
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This is the second personification of the sun that appears within the set of Tarocchi, after the engraving displaying Apollo (1924.432.20) and before the one showing the sun as a star (1924.432.44).

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