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Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio|Rosso Fiorentino|Antonio Salamanca

Plate 1: Saturn in a niche devouring his son, standing before a scythe, from "Mythological Gods and Goddesses"

1526
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21.1 × 11.2 cm (8.3 × 4.4 in)

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