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Antonio Tempesta, artist
Italian, 1555 - 1630
Athamas Learchum interficit et Ino Melicertam in aequor praecipitat (The Insane Athamas Killing Learchus, While Ino and Melicertor Jump into the Sea), pl. 39 from the series Ovid*s Metamorphoses, 17th century
Etching
10.4 x 11.7 cm (image)
Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Sopher Collection 1989.1.172

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publisher, Wilhelmus Jansonnius

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Artist Biography: Painter and etcher born in Florence in 1555, died in Rome 5 August 1630. See: Sopher, Marcus. Seventeenth-Century Italian Prints. Stanford: 1978.~~Reference: Bartsch, Adam. Le Peintre-graveur. vol. 37. W¸rzburg: 1920~Buffa, Sebastian. Antonio Tempesta. The Illustrated Bartsch, vols. 35, 36 & 37. New York: 1984, Abaris Books.~

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