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Giovanni Antonio da Brescia|Giovanni Pietro da Birago

Candelabra grostesque with two children wearing helmets, from a series of twelve candelabra grotesques

1490–1515
Engraving
54.7 × 9.3 cm (21.5 × 3.7 in)

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