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Ugo da Carpi|Parmigianino

Diogenes, seated before his barrel, reading from a book, a plucked hen standing behind him at right

ca. 1527–30
Chiaroscuro woodcut printed from four blocks in gray-green ink
47.5 × 34.6 cm (18.7 × 13.6 in)

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