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Plate 7: In frame at center, Diana embracing a sleeping Endymion; in roundel to the left, Orpheus in the underworld, looking back at Eurydice; in roundel to the right, the rape of Europa; from the Galeriae Farnesianae Icones

Pietro Aquila Italian
after Annibale Carracci Italian
Publisher Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi Italian

ca. 1674

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Scenes from Metamorphoses (10:11–36) and (2:836–875).

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Title: Plate 7: In frame at center, Diana embracing a sleeping Endymion; in roundel to the left, Orpheus in the underworld, looking back at Eurydice; in roundel to the right, the rape of Europa; from the Galeriae Farnesianae Icones

Artist: Pietro Aquila (Italian, Marsala, Sicily 1650–1692/1700 Rome)

Artist: after Annibale Carracci (Italian, Bologna 1560–1609 Rome)

Publisher: Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi (Italian, Rome 1627–1691 Rome)

Date: ca. 1674

Medium: Etching and engraving

Dimensions: Sheet: 11 15/16 × 27 1/2 in. (30.4 × 69.8 cm)

Classifications: Prints, Ornament & Architecture

Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951

Accession Number: 51.501.3560

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