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Polidoro da Caravaggio

Perseus with the Head of Medusa, Turning Phineus and his Followers to Stone

1567
Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper
20.4 × 48.7 cm (8 × 19.2 in)

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