The "Aldobrandini wedding": a group of women prepare a young bride for her marriage. Engraving by A. Mochetti after Aloysius Agricola after a fresco painting.

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The "Aldobrandini wedding": a group of women prepare a young bride for her marriage. Engraving by A. Mochetti after Aloysius Agricola after a fresco painting. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The bride sits in the centre, dressed in a white veil and hood, in the company of a bare-breasted woman identified as a bridesmaid or Venus

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[Rome?] : Pietro Paulo Montagnani-Mirabili

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1 print : engraving ; image 23.4 x 50 cm

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Pars aliquata rituum nuptialium quos vetus pictura refert Romae invent ad arcum Gallieni et in hortus aldobrandinos iamdiu translata ... Aloysius Agricola delin. A. Mochetti sculp. Pietro Paulo Montagnani-Mirabili D.D.D.

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Wellcome Collection 28407i

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After: a fresco painting in the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana

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