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Cherubino Alberti (Zaccaria Mattia)|Polidoro da Caravaggio

Perseus changing Atlas into a mountan with the head of Medusa, from Perseus and the Golden Apples

1570–1615
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17.2 × 30 cm (6.8 × 11.8 in)

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