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Poets, Lovers, and Heroes in Italian Mythological Prints
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Hercules and the Hydra of Lerna, ca. 1500–1520
Cristofano Robetta (Florence 1462–after 1534 Florence?) after Antonio Pollaiuolo (Florence ca. 1432–1498 Rome)
Engraving; sheet 9 1/8 x 7 1/4 in. (23.2 x 18.4 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1927 (27.20.2)
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Hercules and Antaeus, ca. 1516
Ugo da Carpi (b. Carpi, active ca. 1502–1532, d. Bologna?) after Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio) (Urbino 1483–1520 Rome)
Chiaroscuro woodcut from two blocks; sheet 11 15/16 x 8 7/8 in. (30.3 x 22.6 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Rogers Fund, 1922 (22.67.80)
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Hercules and Antaeus, ca. 1490s
"Premier Engraver" after Andrea Mantegna (Italian, 1431–1506)
Engraving, outlines pricked for transfer; sheet 13 9/16 x 9 3/4 in. (34.5 x 24.8 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Rogers Fund, 1918 (18.65.3)
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Hercules and Achelous in the Form of a Bull, ca. 1524–25
Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio (Verona or Parma, ca. 1500/05–1565 Krakow?) after Rosso Fiorentino (Giovanni Battista di Jacopo) (Florence 1494–1540 Fontainebleau)
Engraving; sheet 8 3/8 x 6 7/8 in. (21.2 x 17.5 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949 (49.50.208)
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Judgment of Paris, 1515–20
Marcantonio Raimondi (Argini, near Bologna 1475/80–1527/34 Bologna)
after Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio) (Urbino 1483–1520 Rome)
Engraving; sheet 11 7/16 x 17 3/16 in. (29.1 x 43.7 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Rogers Fund, 1919 (19.74.1)
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The Trojans Pulling the Wooden Horse into the City, 1545
Giulio Bonasone (Bologna ca. 1510–after 1576 Bologna) after Francesco Primaticcio (Bologna 1504/05–1570 Paris)
Engraving, 1st state; plate 15 3/4 x 25 1/16 in. (40 x 63.6 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953 (53.600.4450)
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Aeneas and His Family Fleeing Troy, 1595
Agostino Carracci (Bologna 1557–1602 Parma) after Federico Barocci (Urbino 1535–1612 Urbino)
Engraving; sheet 15 3/16 x 20 7/8 in. (38.6 x 53 cm), trimmed to platemark at sides and top, inscription trimmed at bottom
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1947 (47.100.1023)
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Dream of Aeneas, ca. 1663–64
Salvator Rosa (Arenella, Naples 1615–1673 Rome)
Etching with drypoint; 13 3/4 x 9 1/16 in. (34.9 x 23 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917 (17.50.17.85)
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