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The frescoes in the Vatican Palace commissioned by Popes Julius II and Leo X

After a work by the workshop of Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520)

A niched pope between allegorical figures and caryatids c.1860-76

Carbon print | 45.4 x 36.0 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852959

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A photograph of a Pope (Alexander I or Sylvester I?) enthroned between the allegorical figures of Faith and Religion, on the left of the fresco of The Battle of Constantine at the Milvian Bridge, painted by Raphael's workshop in the Sala di Costantino in the Vatican between 1520 and 1524.
  • Creator(s)

    After a work by the workshop of Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)

    Subject(s)
    Pope Sylvester I (d. 335)
    Pope Alexander I (d. c.115)
  • 45.4 x 36.0 cm (sheet of paper)

  • Acquired for the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1860-76)

  • Object type(s)
      • visual works
        • photographs
    Subject(s)
    • Philosophy & Psychology
      • Philosophy
        • Allegory
    • Places
      • Europe
        • Italy
          • Lazio [Italy]
            • Rome [Lazio]
              • Vatican City [Rome]
                • Vatican Palace [Vatican City]
                  • Sala di Costantino [Vatican Palace]
  • Other number(s)

    Ruland p.238 C.III.1