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Theseus and the Minotaur (Minotaurum Theseus vincit), from The Metamorphoses of Ovid (Metamorphosean Sive Transformationum), plate 74

Antonio Tempesta
Credit: Gift of S. Paul Jones, 1935
Published after 1606
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17.5 x 20.0cm
35.6(75)
Image © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019

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