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Giovanni da Udine (Giovanni dei Ricamatori)|Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières, comte de Caylus

Grotesques: detail of the stucco reliefs decorating the Colosseum in Rome

ca. 1729
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34.5 × 21.2 cm (13.6 × 8.3 in)

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