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Stefano della Bella

Banquet of the Piacevoli, various men are seated at long tables around the perimeter of a large room, a man seated to the right giving a dog table scraps, curtains are draped around the image, Medici coat of arms at top center

1627
Etching
28.6 × 42.4 cm (11.3 × 16.7 in)

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