Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola)|Niccolò Vicentino

Olympus (Surprise)

ca. 1540–50
Chiaroscuro woodcut from three blocks in brown; first state of six
23.2 × 15.4 cm (9.1 × 6.1 in)

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