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Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio|Rosso Fiorentino

Hercules defeating the river god Acheolus in the form of a bull, with three women to his left holding cornucopias, from "Herculean Subjects"

ca. 1526–27
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21.3 × 17.7 cm (8.4 × 7 in)

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