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Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio|Rosso Fiorentino

Plate 19: Vulcan standing in a niche swinging a hammer, with an anvil, hammer, and tongs at his feet, from "Mythological Gods and Goddesses"

1526
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20.9 × 10.7 cm (8.2 × 4.2 in)

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