Hercules at the cross-roads, he is seated at the right, to the left are female personifications of Virtue and Vice
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Public domain photo of Italian art print, 18th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
Printmaking in woodcut and engraving came to Northern Italy within a few decades of their invention north of the Alps. Engraving probably came first to Florence in the 1440s, the goldsmith Maso Finiguerra (1426–64) used the technique. Italian engraving caught the very early Renaissance, 1460–1490. Print copying was a widely accepted practice, as well as copying of paintings viewed as images in their own right.
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Date
1547 - 1586
Source
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Public Domain Dedication (CC0)