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Niccolò Vicentino|Polidoro da Caravaggio

Ajax lower left holding a shield aloft, at the right stands Agamemnon surrounded by his soldiers

1540–50
Chiaroscuro woodcut from three blocks in gray
30.5 × 41.9 cm (12 × 16.5 in)

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