Giovanni Antonio da Brescia

Ignorance and Mercury (an allegory of Virtue and Vice), Mercury kneeling at right holding a staff and taking the hand of a man who emerges from a pile of naked bodies, at left a tree with the torso and head of a woman (Daphne)

ca. 1490–1525
Engraving
30.2 × 44 cm (11.9 × 17.3 in)

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