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Natale Bonifacio|Giovanni Guerra|Domenico Fontana|Pope Sixtus V (Felice Peretti)|Bartolomeo Grassi

Moving the Vatican Obelisk

1586
Etching, printed from three plates
48.5 × 112 cm (19.1 × 44.1 in)

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