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Niccolò Vicentino|Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola)|Ugo da Carpi

The contest between Apollo and Marsyas

ca. 1540–50
Chiaroscuro woodcut from four blocks in brown
20.5 × 14.8 cm (8.1 × 5.8 in)

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