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Antonio Tempesta

Plate 32: Thisbe Killing Herself (Thisbe Pyrami exemplum aemulata pectus sibi trasuerberat), from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'

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10.2 × 11.6 cm (4 × 4.6 in)

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