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Asteria pursued by Zeus in the form of an eagle by Marco Liberi.
Marco Liberi (c.1640 – after 1687) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. He was the son of the painter Pietro Liberi in Padua, and received his training under his father. He painted mythologic and historic cabinet paintings.
References
- Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong & Robert Edmund Graves (ed.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume II L-Z). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons. p. 53.