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Scene from the Life of Mutius Scaevola, after a Frieze from the Palazzo Ricci, Rome
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Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Gift of Jakob Rosenberg
Title: Scene from the Life of Mutius Scaevola, after a Frieze from the Palazzo Ricci, Rome
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