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Antonio Tempesta

Plate 138: Acmon and his Friends Changed into Birds (Comites Diomedis indignatione veneris in aves Diomedeas), from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'

1606
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10.2 × 11.5 cm (4 × 4.5 in)

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