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Vatican Frescoes

Vatican Frescoes

    AFTER RAPHAEL (URBINO 1483-ROME 1520)

    Apollo and Marsyas

    c.1860-76

    Carbon print | 46.4 x 35.5 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852648

    A photograph of one of the four rectangular frescoes painted on the vault of the Stanza della Segnatura in the Vatican. The fresco depicts 'The Punishment of Marsyas' (also known as The Flaying of Marsyas).

    • Creator(s)

      After Raphael (Urbino 1483-Rome 1520) (artist)

    • 46.4 x 35.5 cm (sheet of paper)

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

    • Subject(s)
      • Religion & Theology
        • Religions and faiths
          • Religions of antiquity
            • Classical mythology
              • Marsyas (myth)
              • Apollo (myth)
      • Places
        • Europe
          • Italy
            • Lazio [Italy]
              • Rome [Lazio]
                • Vatican City [Rome]
                  • Vatican Palace [Vatican City]
                    • Stanza della Segnatura [Vatican Palace]
                      • Vatican-Stanza della Segnatura-Ceiling
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