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Antonio Tempesta

Plate 29: Bacchus Changing his Kidnappers into Monsters (Tyrrheni nautae in Dlephinos), from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'

1606
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10 × 11.6 cm (3.9 × 4.6 in)

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