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Jan Erasmus Quellinus

Benedict of Nursia Orders the Destruction of the Temple of Apollo at Monte Cassino

mid-17th–early 18th century
Pen and brown and black ink, brush and gray ink, black chalk, white gouache, watercolour (blue)
55.9 × 38 cm (22 × 15 in)

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