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Cristofano di Michele Martini

Allegory of the Power of Love, with a man at center embracing a semi-naked woman, who is bound to a tree by Cupid

1480–1535
Engraving in brown ink
30 × 28.3 cm (11.8 × 11.1 in)

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In the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · as of July 2026

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