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Mars and Venus United by Love
Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) · 1570s
- Artist
- Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) Italian, Verona 1528–1588 Venice
- Date
- 1570s
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Size
- 81 x 63 3/8 in. (205.7 x 161 cm)
- Where to see it
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
John Stewart Kennedy Fund, 1910 · CC0 Public Domain · The Met · see it at the museum ↗
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