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Pomponio Amalteo

Design for a Pendentive: Youthful Musicians with Wind Instruments and a Drum

1505–88
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white, over red chalk, on blue paper
6 × 6 cm (2.4 × 2.4 in)

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