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Antonio Tempesta

Battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs

c. 1600
Pen and ink, and brush and brown and gray wash, red chalk, and white gouache, over traces of black chalk, on ivory laid paper; incised
40.9 × 65.1 cm (16.1 × 25.6 in)

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