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Vatican Frescoes

Vatican Frescoes

    A draped man leaning on a parapet

    c.1853-76

    Salted paper print | RCIN 852582

    A photograph of a drawing now in the Royal Library at Windsor Castle (RCIN 990241). The drawing is a copy from the figure of the philosopher watching the young man writing, leaning on a pilaster at the top right of the stairs in Raphael's 'School of Athens', painted in c.1509-10 in the Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican.
    • Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

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