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Ugo da Carpi|Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi

Hercules chasing Avarice from the temple of the Muses

ca. 1520–27
Chiaroscuro woodcut from two blocks in brown; second state of two (Bartsch)
29.5 × 22.7 cm (11.6 × 8.9 in)

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