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Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola)|Niccolò Vicentino

Olympus (Surprise)

ca. 1540–50
Chiaroscuro woodcut from three blocks in brown ink; fourth state of six
26 × 17.7 cm (10.2 × 7 in)

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In the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · as of July 2026

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