Polyhymnia, Greek Muse of poetry and dance. Standing before ruined arches and broken masonry. From a sculpture in the Galleria Giustiniana. Variously identified as Sabina or Sibylla Cumana. Copperplate engraving after an illustration by Joachim von Sandrart from his L’Academia Todesca, della Architectura, Scultura & Pittura, oder Teutsche Academie, der Edlen Bau- Bild- und Mahlerey-Kunste, German Academy of Architecture, Sculpture and Painting, Jacob von Sandrart, Nuremberg, 1675.

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