Identifier: gri_picturaloque00smid (find matches)
Title: Pictura loquens; sive Heroicarum tabularum Hadriani Schoonebeeck enarratio et explicatio
Year: 1695 (1690s)
Authors: Smids, Ludolph, 1649-1720 Schoonebeek, Adriaan, 1657 or 8-1705
Subjects: Mythology, Classical Mythology, Classical, in art History, Ancient History, Ancient, in art
Publisher: Amstelaedami, ex officina Hadriani Schoonebeek
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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