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Giovanni Battista della Rovere

The Massacre of the Innocents

ca. 1590
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over black chalk (recto); sketch for the decoration of a spandrel in pen and brown ink over red chalk (verso)
39.9 × 55.4 cm (15.7 × 21.8 in)

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