Giovanni Battista Castello, called Il Bergamasco

Tapestry Design with Venus seeking help from Juno, Ceres and Jupiter

1555–65
Pen and brown ink, partially over black chalk with a gray-brown wash
30.4 × 26.9 cm (12 × 10.6 in)

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