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Vulcan, Venus and Eros, by Marcantonio Raimondi

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An image of Vulcan, Venus and Eros. Raimondi, Marcantonio (Italiant, 1470/1482-1527/1534). Print, engraving, circa 1506.

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Vulcan, Venus and Eros. Raimondi, Marcantonio (Italiant, 1470/1482-1527/1534). Print, engraving, circa 1506.

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  • Accession Number: 1880.4.21-22
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/19.0
  • Focal length: 80
  • Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
  • Image height: 1025 pixels
  • Image width: 839 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 1.19MB
  • Exposure time: 1/125
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 19/1
  • Captured: 2017:05:16 10:30:27

Key words

16th Century Aphrodite engraving Eros female female nude Fitz_PDP forge forging metal furnace goddess gods Hephaestus High Renaissance Italian landscape male Marcantonio Raimondi metalworking mythological mythology nude Raimondi Renaissance Venus Vulcan

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