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Perseus Changing Atlas into a Mountain with the Head of Medusa


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At the bottom of the engraving is a dedicatory inscription to Cardinal Francesco Barberini where the artist claims having engraved the plate with his ingenium ('vel ex ingenio tabulis aereis insculpta').

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Ingenuity: Ingenium, Ingenuity: Ingegno, Atlas, Medusa, Perseus, Hesperides, Garden

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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