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Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini)|Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi|Gaspar de Guzman, Count of Olivares and Duke of Sanlucar|Anonymous, Italian, 17th century

Plate 6: Allegory with Hercules chasing off the Harpies as Justice and Plenty aid the poor, from Barberinae aulae fornix

ca. 1677
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40.3 × 54.3 cm (15.9 × 21.4 in)

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