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DescriptionGiulio Romano - Meleager et Atalanta.jpg
"Meleager et Atalanta", from a drawing by Guilio Romano, engraved by François Louis Lonsing. Atalanta is the woman on the far left with the bow; Meleager is just right of her, with the boar spear sticking into the Calydonian Boar.
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SCHOLA Italica picturae sive selectae quaedam summorum e schola Italica pictorum tabulae aere incisae cura et impensis Gavini Hamilton pictoris ... - Romae : [s.n.], 1773. – 40 folhas de est. : toda il. ; 65 cm.
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Meleager et Atalanta, from a drawing by Giulio Romano, engraved by François Louis Lonsing. Atalanta is at far left with bow; Meleager is right of her, spearing the Calydonian boar (1773).