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Antonio Tempesta

Plate 100: Apollo Killing the Serpent Attacking Opheus's Head (Serpens Orphei caput dilaniaturus in saxum ab Apolline convertitur), from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'

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10.1 × 11.5 cm (4 × 4.5 in)

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