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Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi)|Marcantonio Raimondi

Mercury descending from the sky a trumpet in his right hand, after Raphael's fresco in the Chigi Gallery of the Villa Farnesina in Rome

1517–20
Engraving
30.7 × 20.5 cm (12.1 × 8.1 in)

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