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Antonio Tempesta

Plate 83: Nessus Attempting to Take Dejanera from Hercules (Neßus Dianiram rapiens telo ab Hercule configitur), from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'

1606
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10.4 × 11.7 cm (4.1 × 4.6 in)

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