Canens is looking for Picus, Antonio Tempesta, 1606 print Canens floats with two torches above a river landscape searching for a picus. In the foreground on the right a river god (Tiber?) And the Lupa Capitolina that sits the twins Romulus and Remus. Title in Latin in STUDMARGE. print maker: Italypublisher: Antwerp paper etching Canens in search of Picus, who on account of his spurning Circe had been changed into a woodpecker

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