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This large tapestry cartoon represents a subject drawn from Livy and Polybius. It was preparatory for the weaving of a section of the Tapestry of Scipio executed in Brussels c. 1558 for Jacques d'Albon, Maréchal de Saint-André and favourite of King Henri II of France. The artist, who was certainly Mantuan and shows himself here to be a follower of Giulio Romano, was perhaps Fermo Ghisoni (c. 1505-1575).
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