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Antonio Salamanca|Master of the Die|Michiel Coxie

Plate 30: Venus and Cupid pleading their case before Jupiter and other Gods with Mercury transporting Psyche to the heavens at lower right, from "The Story of Cupid and Psyche as told by Apuleius"

1530–60
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26 × 40.2 cm (10.2 × 15.8 in)

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