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    AFTER A WORK PREVIOUSLY ATTRIBUTED TO GIULIO ROMANO (ROME C. 1499-MANTUA 1546)

    Battle scene

    c.1860-76

    Carbon print | 30.5 x 45.1 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 852932

    A photograph of a drawing catalogued by Ruland (1876) as by Giulio Romano, then in the collection of the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar.

    • Creator(s)

      After a work previously attributed to Giulio Romano (Rome c. 1499-Mantua 1546) (artist)

      Subject(s)

      Constantine I, The Great (272-337 AD)
      Maxentius, Emperor of Rome (278-312 AD)

    • 30.5 x 45.1 cm (sheet of paper)

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

    • Subject(s)
      • Social sciences
        • Military affairs
          • Wars, Campaigns & Battles
            • Wars
              • Wars of the first century to the tenth century
                • Rome and the Barbarians (305-400) (war)
                  • Battle of the Milvian Bridge, 312 (Rome and the Barbarians)
            • War operations
              • Battles
      Object type(s)
        • visual works
          • photographs
    • Other number(s)

      Ruland p.236 B.II.23

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