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Antonio Tempesta

Plate 145: Hersilia Taken to the Heavens (Hersilia Romuli coniunx in Oram deam a Iunone constituitur), from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'

1606
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10.2 × 11.7 cm (4 × 4.6 in)

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