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Enea Vico|Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola)|Antonio Salamanca

Lucretia Preparing to Kill Herself

ca. 1542
Engraving; second state
30.3 × 20.4 cm (11.9 × 8 in)

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