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Pietro Santi Bartoli|Giulio Romano

Giants crushed by rocks and the falling columns of the temple, clouds of smoke above, Poseidon in his chariot to left in the background, two spaces at left for doorways, from 'Giove che fulmina li giganti', after the frescoes on the ceiling of the Sala dei Giganti designed by Giulio Romano for the Palazzo del Te, Mantua

ca. 1680
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19.2 × 28.5 cm (7.6 × 11.2 in)

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