A design for a triumphal arch

A photograph of a pen and ink drawing depicting a design for a triumphal arch now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (inv. no. WA1846.21), where it is catalogued as by Baccio Bandinelli. Annotated on the verso.

Ruland (1876) notes that this drawing was probably executed by Bandinelli for a Medician Pope. In the catalogue of the Italian drawings of the Ashmolean Museum, Parker writes that the drawing – coming from Sir Thomas Lawrence's collection – was originally attributed to Raphael and that the current attribution was proposed by Robinson (see Bibliographic References).

A number of scholars debated the destination of this drawing: Passavant interpreted the Medici arms as referring to Clement VII, while Robinson linked the drawing to the temporary decorations executed in 1515 for the visit of Leo X to Florence (see Bibliographic References). 

This drawing is similar to a design by Bandinelli in the Real Academia de San Fernando, Madrid (inv. no. 1521), where it is catalogued as a study for the tomb of Leo X and Clement VII in the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome.